Andrew Himes

“The revival movement was responsible for a tremendous spread of Christianity among slaves in the South. Slaves came in their thousands to…

— Andrew Himes

“The logic of evangelical Protestants in the 18th century led to an inescapable conclusion: If God was indeed no respecter of persons,…

— Andrew Himes

“The Baptist teaching that all are equal in the sight of God seemed to run right up against the notion that any…

— Andrew Himes

“The political dominance of the Religious Right over the past three decades in America has had a profoundly negative effect on how Americans…

— Andrew Himes

“Doak and other early abolitionists planted a host of Presbyterian churches and “log cabin colleges” that taught a strong antislavery doctrine. They laid…

— Andrew Himes

“Charles G. Finney, known as “America’s foremost revivalist,” was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening. Finney was a fiery, entertaining,…

— Andrew Himes

“On the day of their arrival on Hazel Hill my family’s history and fortunes—and my own heritage—were first indissolubly linked with the enslavement…

— Andrew Himes

“The roots of 20th century American fundamentalism can be discerned in the confluence of these two streams of immigration, culture, and history.…

— Andrew Himes

“A principal leader of the revival movement in east Tennessee was Samuel Doak, the Presbyterian minister who had delivered his famous “Sword of…

— Andrew Himes

“The same radical egalitarianism, however, could just as naturally lead to the belief that any white person, made in the image of…

— Andrew Himes

“Over the forty-two years that the Rice family lived in Missouri during the 19th century, the family evolved from poor dirt farmers…

— Andrew Himes

“86 percent believe that Christians are hypocritical, saying one thing and doing another. 75 percent believe that Christians are too involved in…

— Andrew Himes

“Charles G. Finney, known as “America’s foremost revivalist,” was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening. Finney was a fiery, entertaining,…

— Andrew Himes

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes…

— Andrew Himes

“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after…

— Andrew Himes

“The traumatic experience of the Civil War and its aftermath in the 19th century was the incubator of Christian fundamentalism in 20th century…

— Andrew Himes

For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the…

— Andrew Himes

“Especially in Appalachian east Tennessee, where there were few slaves and few slave owners, the evangelical revivals of the Awakening movement cradled…

— Andrew Himes

“As the Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others—were carried into the slave states of the South, into the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,…

— Andrew Himes

“The new Republican Party was formed to denounce the act and stop the expansion of slavery, and the abolitionists began to clean their…

— Andrew Himes

“The white population of Texas from before the war, then, was never truly beaten, never truly surrendered, and was never brought violently…

— Andrew Himes

“From my limited and immature child’s point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the…

— Andrew Himes

“I ended up as much a Maoist failure as I had been a Christian failure. Souls were still unsaved, and the imperialist…

— Andrew Himes

“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed…

— Andrew Himes

“The new evangelical movement in the early 19th century was strongly focused on social justice and social equality. The famous English preacher…

— Andrew Himes