{"product_id":"the-search-for-a-rational-faith-reason-and-belief-in-the-history-of-american-christianity-hardcover","title":"The Search for a Rational Faith: Reason and Belief in the History of American Christianity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel K. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Enlightenment and Darwinism posed threats to traditional Christianity. So why have so many highly educated Americans remained committed believers? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Search for a Rational Faith\u003c\/em\u003e challenges popular theories of secularization with a sweeping 400-year history of Anglo-American Protestant defenses of the Christian faith. Through a detailed study of the arguments of those who found Christian faith compatible with Enlightenment reason, Daniel K. Williams explains why Christian faith has continued to remain a viable intellectual option in the United States even for educated people who accept modern science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the seventeenth-century New England Puritans who founded Harvard College to the twentieth-century university professors who believed that Christian theism was the only viable grounding for morality in the atomic age, faith and reason have been an integral part of the Anglo-American experience. This book chronicles that story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a story that intersects with the spiritual lives of well-known figures such as Isaac Newton, John Locke, John Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Martin Luther King Jr., all of whom wrestled with the question of the reason to believe. It is the story of Christian apologists who crafted intellectually sophisticated defenses of the faith. And above all, it is the story of the development of an idea-the idea that there is a rational basis for Christian belief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book shows how that idea was transmitted from England to America in the seventeenth century and how it continued to develop and transform over the next four centuries in response to the Enlightenment, Darwinian evolution, historical criticism of the Bible, new theories of religious epistemology, and the ethical challenge of the civil rights movement. \u003cem\u003eThe Search for a Rational Faith\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of what that idea meant in the past and what it still means today, in a new era of secularization.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel K. Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e, Associate Professor, Ashland University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel K. Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historian of American religion and politics who is currently an associate professor of history at Ashland University. Before coming to Ashland University, he was a professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of several books on religion and politics in the United States, including \u003cem\u003eGod's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right and Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade.\u003c\/em\u003e His articles on American Christianity and conservatism have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, the Atlantic, Christianity Today, and the Washington Post.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.51 x 9.39 x 6.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53177414091085,"sku":"9780197748039","price":80.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/UUZ7I6mUiq9780197748039.webp?v=1768387848","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-search-for-a-rational-faith-reason-and-belief-in-the-history-of-american-christianity-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}