Book Summary
Wills brings a lifetimes worth of thought into his landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life, and highlights the struggle that has long existed between reason and emotion. 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 nowaas throughout our nationas historyais 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.
Book Details
| Book Name | Head And Heart: A History Of Christianity In America |
| Author | Garry Wills |
| Publisher | Penguin Books (Oct 2008) |
| ISBN | 9780143114079 |
| Pages | 626 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 619 |
