Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and DoubtYale University Press, 01.12.2008 - 256 Seiten In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine creative artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including such diverse figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vincent van Gogh, and James Baldwin. Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world. Allowing his subjects to express themselves in their own voices--through letters, essays, speeches, novels, apologias, paintings--Hempton seeks to understand the factors at work in the shaping of their religious beliefs, and how their negotiations of faith informed their public and private lives. The nine were great public communicators, but in private often felt deep uncertainties. Hempton's moving portraits highlight common themes among the experiences of these disillusioned evangelicals while also revealing fresh insights into the evangelical movement and its relations to the wider culture. Featuring portraits of: - George Eliot- Frances W. Newman- Theodore Dwight Weld- Sarah Grimke- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Frances Willard- Vincent van Gogh- Edmund Gosse- James Baldwin |
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... Eliot - Dr . Cumming's Fundamentalism Evangelicalism and Morality 19 3 Francis W. Newman - The Road to Baghdad Evangelicalism and Mission 41 4 Theodore Dwight Weld - The American Century Evangelicalism and Reform 70 5 Sarah Grimké ...
... Eliot - Dr . Cumming's Fundamentalism Evangelicalism and Morality 19 3 Francis W. Newman - The Road to Baghdad Evangelicalism and Mission 41 4 Theodore Dwight Weld - The American Century Evangelicalism and Reform 70 5 Sarah Grimké ...
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... Eliot, one of the English- speaking world's greatest novelists; Francis Newman, the distinguished Vic- torian intellectual (brother of John Henry Newman), who was also an early Protestant missionary to Baghdad; Theodore Dwight Weld, the ...
... Eliot, one of the English- speaking world's greatest novelists; Francis Newman, the distinguished Vic- torian intellectual (brother of John Henry Newman), who was also an early Protestant missionary to Baghdad; Theodore Dwight Weld, the ...
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... Eliot's acerbic treatment of Cum- ming was motivated by more than mere passing interest. The prose leaps from the page, reflecting someone with an unusually personal engagement with the issues at stake. In fact it was written by Eliot ...
... Eliot's acerbic treatment of Cum- ming was motivated by more than mere passing interest. The prose leaps from the page, reflecting someone with an unusually personal engagement with the issues at stake. In fact it was written by Eliot ...
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... Eliot , John Henry Newman , the son or sons of Charles Grant , Lord Teignmouth , Buxton , Lady Emily Pusey , Benjamin Harrison , Sir James Graham , John Gladstone , Sir Robert Peel and William Manning . ' . ” 13 Brown's explanation for ...
... Eliot , John Henry Newman , the son or sons of Charles Grant , Lord Teignmouth , Buxton , Lady Emily Pusey , Benjamin Harrison , Sir James Graham , John Gladstone , Sir Robert Peel and William Manning . ' . ” 13 Brown's explanation for ...
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... Eliot was chosen to lead off the parade largely because she wrote one of the most savagely polemical essays ever written against evangelical teaching and also, confusingly, one of the most winning portraits of an evan- gelical character ...
... Eliot was chosen to lead off the parade largely because she wrote one of the most savagely polemical essays ever written against evangelical teaching and also, confusingly, one of the most winning portraits of an evan- gelical character ...
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Evangelicalism and Mission | 41 |
Evangelicalism and Reform | 70 |
Evangelicalism and Feminism | 92 |
Evangelicalism and Secularization | 114 |
Evangelicalism and Childhood | 139 |
Evangelicalism and Race | 163 |
Enchantment and Disenchantment | 187 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 225 |
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