Converting the Saints: A Study of Religious Rivalry in America

by Charles Randall Paul

Overview

Converting the Saints focuses on American religious history and particularly on the early-twentieth-century Protestant missions to Utah to convert Mormons to traditional Christian belief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589587472
Publisher:	Greg Kofford Books, Inc.
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Charles Randall Paul (Ph.D., University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, 2000; M.B.A., Harvard University, 1972) is board chair, founder, and president of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy. He has lectured widely and written numerous articles on healthy methods for engaging differences in religions and ideologies. He is on the board of editors for the International Journal of Decision Ethics. He has been married to his wife Jann for more than forty years, and they have five children.

Table of Contents

Scriptural Abbreviations Guide ix

Acknowledgements xi

Prologue xiii

Introduction xv

1. The American Lively Experiment: 1

Sustaining Religious Rivalry and Peace

2. Violent American Religious Conflicts: Three Strong Cases 19

3. American Religious Climate 1900–1925: A Christian Nation? 41

4. Rival Stewards Of The American Promised Land 59

5. The True Church Challenge: Counterfeit Vs. Real Christianity 81

6. John Danforth Nutting, Nondenominational Preacher At Large 121

7. William Mitchell Paden, Presbyterian Polemicist 141

8. Franklin Spencer Spalding, Episcopalian Diplomat 167

9. Comparing Mission Methods Of Nutting, Paden, And Spalding 193

10. Contestational Rivalry Without Coercion Or Violence 221

Bibliography 235

Index 255