Issues in American Christianity: primary sources with introductions

Hopes for the New World : Good newes from Virginia / Alexander Whitaker (1613)

A modell of Christian charity / John Winthrop (1630)

Problems within American Puritanism : The bloudy tenent of persecution / Roger Williams (1644)

Tests for witches / Increase Mather (1693)

The Great Awakening : On the occasion of an unusual outpouring of the spirit of God / Solomon Stoddard (1712)

The danger of an unconverted ministry / Gilbert Tennent (1740)

The distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God / Jonathan Edwards (1741)

Concern for Indians and black slaves : Letter ... to the inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina / George Whitefield (1740)

On the horrid treatment of Southern slaves / John Woolman (1757)

Beginning of the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Richard Allen (1831)

Revolution and the new nation : The United States elevated to glory and honour / Ezra Stiles (1783)

A plea for the West / Lyman Beecher (1835).

Threats to Christian orthodoxy : The age of reason / Thomas Paine (1794)

Unitarian Christianity / William Ellery Channing (1819)

Travels; in New England and New York / Timothy Dwight (1817)

Revivalism and the Second Great Awakening : The backwoods preacher / Peter Cartwright (1856)

Lectures on the revivals of religion / Charles Grandison Finney (1835)

The anxious bench / John Williamson Nevin (1844)

Redefining the Christian message : Concio ad clerum / Nathaniel William Taylor (1828)

The divinity school address / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1838)

The vicarious sacrifice / Horace Bushnell (1866)

The rise of cults and deviant movements : Joseph Smith's preparation for Mormonism / Lucy Smith (1853)

Bible Communism / John Humphrey Noyes (1870)

Reformers and new rights : The promise of the Father / Phoebe Palmer (1859)

The temperance movement / Lyman Beecher (1864)

The Seneca Falls convention / Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1881)

The growth of Roman Catholicism : On the problem of trusteeism / Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick (1831)

The syllabus of errors / Pope PIus IX (1864).

The agonizing question of slavery : A condemnation of the institution of slavery / The Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky (1835)

On the subject of domestic slavery / Bishop John England (1844)

Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

The debate between science and religion : The incompatibility of evolution with theology / Charles Hodge (1874)

The compatibility of evolution with theology / Lyman Abbott (1915)

Liberalism and Christian orthodoxy : The new theology / Theodore T. Munger (1883)

The essence of Christianity / Benjamin B. Warfield (1914)

Concerns for the poor and downtrodden : The colored ministry / Booker T. Washington (1890)

The social gospel / Washington Gladden (1902)

The social gospel / Walter Rauschenbusch (1907)

Pluralism and the American Catholics : Our country / Josiah Strong (1891)

Rerum novarum / Pope Leo XIII (1891)

On the separation of church and state / James Cardinal Gibbons (1916).

The Fundamentalist-modernist controversy : The faith of modernism / Shailer Mathews (1924)

The Scopes trial / William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow (1925)

Dare we renew the controversy / Carl F.H. Henry (1957)

Challenges of the new millennium : Approaching hoofbeats / Billy Graham (1983)

The new denominations / Les Parrott II and Robin Perrin (1991)

Salt and light / Augustus Cerillo, Jr. and Murray Dempster (1989).