More money, more ministry
Subtitle: money and evangelicals in recent North American history
By: edited by Larry Eskridge and Mark A. Noll.
Contributors: Eskridge, Larry, 1954-; Noll, Mark A., 1946-
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Church finance -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Church finance -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This book explores the role that money has played in the growth of North American evangelicalism over the last 150 years, including its uneasy, sometimes ambivalent place in evangelical consciousness. Written by seventeen experts on the contemporary religious scene, these chapters discuss in engaging ways such topics as Christian nonprofit organizations, fund-raising strategies, advertising and consumerism, evangelical higher education, financial scandals, the connection between money and theology, and much more. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally presented at an invitational consultation on evangelicals and finance held in Naperville, Illinois in early December 1998.