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In The History of Christianity in the United States, Chris Armstrong provides an introduction to the major movements, ideas, figures, and events in American church history, from colonization to recent decades. See how transplanted European churches took root, and American originals sprang up, over the course of five centuries of challenges and opportunities: early settlements, the expansion of...

It was attacked with particular virulence and sophistication by the Lutheran theologian Anders Nygren in his 1932 book, Agape and Eros. Nygren insisted that a Christian disciple must take no regard at all for his or her own desires and pleasures but seek entirely the good of God and of others.