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A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years. Mark Noll’s A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada has been firmly established as the standard text on the Christian experience in North America. Now Noll has thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded his classic text to incorporate new materials and important themes, events, leaders, and...

From the first, however, significant numbers of Baptists in the South resisted the centralizing tendencies of the SBC. Some were uncomfortable with the predominant Calvinism of that body. Following the early teaching of Paul Palmer (d. ca. 1750) of North Carolina, groups of Free Will Baptists and General Baptists continued to affirm doctrines of “free grace,” “free will,” and “free salvation.” Other Baptists resisted the denominational structure of the SBC. These groups refused any compromise to
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