Head and Heart: A History of Christianity in America - Softcover

Wills, Garry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114077 ISBN 13: 9780143114079

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2008

Synopsis

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.

Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the struggle now, as throughout our nation's history, is between the head and the heart, reason and emotion, enlightenment and Evangelism. A landmark volume for anyone interested in either politics or religion, Head and Heart concludes that, while religion is a fertile and enduring force in American politics, the tension between the two is necessary, inevitable, and unending.

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Review:

"A major contibution to the national debate over separation of church and state and ought to be read by anyone perplexed by the current interplay of religion and politics."
--Los Angeles Times

"Challenges the conventional wisdom on many issues while synthesizing much of the finest recent scholarship."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Essential reading."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the Author:

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143114077
• ISBN 13: 9780143114079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 626