Summary Book Review American Unitarianism and the Protestant Dilemma by Lydia Willsky-Ciollo:
Download or read book American Unitarianism and the Protestant Dilemma written by Lydia Willsky-Ciollo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines American Unitarianism and its struggle to define religious authority during its nascence in the nineteenth century. This story is situated in the context of Protestant history, revealing how American Unitarianism is representative of the broader Protestant dilemma of establishing the Bible as the primary religious authority.
Summary Book Review American Unitarianism and the Protestant Dilemma by Lydia Willsky-Ciollo:
Download or read book American Unitarianism and the Protestant Dilemma written by Lydia Willsky-Ciollo and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines American Unitarianism and its struggle to define religious authority during its nascence in the nineteenth century. This story is situated in the context of Protestant history, revealing how American Unitarianism is representative of the broader Protestant dilemma of establishing the Bible as the primary religious authority.
Author :John Howard Smith Publisher :Oxford University Press Release Date :2021-02-05 ISBN 10 :9780197533765 Pages :370 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.3/5 (376 users download)
Summary Book Review A Dream of the Judgment Day by John Howard Smith:
Download or read book A Dream of the Judgment Day written by John Howard Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has long thought of itself as exceptional--a nation destined to lead the world into a bright and glorious future. These ideas go back to the Puritan belief that Massachusetts would be a "city on a hill," and in time that image came to define the United States and the American mentality. But what is at the root of these convictions? John Howard Smith's A Dream of the Judgment Day explores the origins of beliefs about the biblical end of the world as Americans have come to understand them, and how these beliefs led to a conception of the United States as an exceptional nation with a unique destiny to fulfill. However, these beliefs implicitly and explicitly excluded African Americans and American Indians because they didn't fit white Anglo-Saxon ideals. While these groups were influenced by these Christian ideas, their exclusion meant they had to craft their own versions of millenarian beliefs. Women and other marginalized groups also played a far larger role than usually acknowledged in this phenomenon, greatly influencing the developing notion of the United States as the "redeemer nation." Smith's comprehensive history of eschatological thought in early America encompasses traditional and non-traditional Christian beliefs in the end of the world. It reveals how millennialism and apocalypticism played a role in destructive and racist beliefs like "Manifest Destiny," while at the same time influencing the foundational idea of the United States as an "elect nation." Featuring a broadly diverse cast of historical figures, A Dream of the Judgment Day synthesizes more than forty years of scholarship into a compelling and challenging portrait of early America.
Summary Book Review New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World [2 volumes] by Eugene V. Gallagher:
Download or read book New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World [2 volumes] written by Eugene V. Gallagher and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable resource for students and general audiences, this book provides a unique global perspective on the history, beliefs, and practices of emergent faith communities, new religious traditions and movements worldwide, from the 19th century to the present. New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World provides insightful global perspectives on the emergent faith communities and new traditions and movements of the last two centuries. Readers will gain access to the information necessary to explore the significance, complexities, and challenges that modern religious traditions have faced throughout their history and that continue to impact society today. The work identifies the themes and issues that have often brought new religions into conflict with the larger societies of which they are a part. Coverage includes new religious groups that emerged in America, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, the Latter-day Saints, and the Jehovah's Witnesses; alternative communities around the globe that emerged from the major Western and Eastern traditions, such as Aum Shinrikyo and Al-Qaeda; and marginalized groups that came to a sudden end, such as the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Branch Davidians. The entries highlight thematic and broader issues that run across the individual religious traditions, and will also help students analyze and assess the common difficulties faced by emergent religious communities. Presents alphabetically arranged entries on new religions that provide readers with easy-to-access, historical information about how these religions emerged from their cultural contexts and evolved over time Provides numerous primary source documents—each introduced by a headnote—that convey firsthand accounts of the founding of new religions and supply students material for critical analysis Includes photographs that help students better visualize important places, people, and things related to new religions Helps meet world history content standards and enables a fuller understanding of religious beliefs and practices in the contemporary world as well as how religions have responded to challenges and uncertainties
Summary Book Review The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism by William R. Hutchison:
Download or read book The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism written by William R. Hutchison and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism traces the history of American Protestant thought from the early part of the nineteenth century to the present. William R. Hutchison deals especially with the "modernist" movement that flourished in the years around 1900, and with the colorful personalities and disputes associated with that movement.
Summary Book Review Unitarian Sermons by American Unitarian Association:
Download or read book Unitarian Sermons written by American Unitarian Association and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies Laurie F Maffly-Kipp Publisher :JHU Press Release Date :2006-08-28 ISBN 10 :080188361X Pages :363 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.0/5 (188 users download)
Summary Book Review Practicing Protestants by Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies Laurie F Maffly-Kipp:
Download or read book Practicing Protestants written by Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies Laurie F Maffly-Kipp and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism. Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.
Download or read book The Unitarian Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Invocation and Assent by Jason E. Vickers:
Download or read book Invocation and Assent written by Jason E. Vickers and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The adoption of a new rule of faith in the seventeenth century significantly changed the way English-speaking Protestants perceive the doctrine of the Trinity. Having been the proper personal name by which Christians came to know and love their God, the Trinity became primarily a rational construct and as such no longer clearly mattered for salvation. In Invocation and Assent Jason Vickers charts this crucial theological shift, illuminating the origins of indifference to the Trinity found in many quarters of Christianity today."--BOOK JACKET.
Summary Book Review American Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1980 with total page 17426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review THE NACIREMA READINGS ON AMERICAN CULTURE by JAMES P. SPRADLEY:
Download or read book THE NACIREMA READINGS ON AMERICAN CULTURE written by JAMES P. SPRADLEY and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unitarian Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review American Evangelicalism by Darren Dochuk:
Download or read book American Evangelicalism written by Darren Dochuk and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This collection of essays uses the career of George M. Marsden and the remarkable breadth of his scholarship to measure current trends in the historical study of American evangelical Protestantism and to encourage fresh scholarly investigation of this faith tradition as it has developed between the eighteenth century and the present. Moving through five sections, each centered around one of Marsden’s major books and the time period it represents, the volume explores different methodologies and approaches to the history of evangelicalism and American religion. Besides assessing Marsden’s illustrious works on their own terms, this collection’s contributors isolate several key themes as deserving of fresh, rigorous, and extensive examination. Through their close investigation of these particular themes, they expand the range of characters and communities, issues and ideas, and contingencies that can and should be accounted for in our historical texts. Marsden’s timeless scholarship thus serves as a launchpad for new directions in our rendering of the American religious past.
Download or read book The Unitarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland]. by Robert Aspland:
Download or read book The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland]. written by Robert Aspland and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review The Myth of American Individualism by Barry Alan Shain:
Download or read book The Myth of American Individualism written by Barry Alan Shain and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. In this context, individual liberty was the freedom to order one's life in accord with the demanding ethical standards found in Scripture and confirmed by reason. This was in keeping with Americans' widespread acceptance of original sin and the related assumption that a well-lived life was only possible in a tightly knit, intrusive community made up of families, congregations, and local government bodies. Shain concludes that Revolutionary-era Americans defended a Protestant communal vision of human flourishing that stands in stark opposition to contemporary liberal individualism. This overlooked component of the American political inheritance, he further suggests, demands examination because it alters the historical ground upon which contemporary political alternatives often seek legitimation, and it facilitates our understanding of much of American history and of the foundational language still used in authoritative political documents.
Author :Heather F. Day Publisher :Scarecrow Press Release Date :1985 ISBN 10 :STANFORD:36105110438467 Pages :505 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Protestant Theological Education in America by Heather F. Day:
Download or read book Protestant Theological Education in America written by Heather F. Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.