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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... Gosse - Father and Son Evangelicalism and Childhood 139 8 James Baldwin - Preacher and Prophet Evangelicalism and Race 163 9 Conclusion Enchantment and Disenchantment 187 Notes 199 Index 225 This page intentionally left blank Preface ...
... Gosse - Father and Son Evangelicalism and Childhood 139 8 James Baldwin - Preacher and Prophet Evangelicalism and Race 163 9 Conclusion Enchantment and Disenchantment 187 Notes 199 Index 225 This page intentionally left blank Preface ...
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... Gosse, whose Father and Son is a classic and con- troversial description of an evangelical childhood; and James Baldwin, the distinguished African American writer and commentator on the state of race relations in the United States. The ...
... Gosse, whose Father and Son is a classic and con- troversial description of an evangelical childhood; and James Baldwin, the distinguished African American writer and commentator on the state of race relations in the United States. The ...
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... of interpreta- tion, and acceptance of respectable social mores. Evangelical disenchantment and van Gogh were almost bound to find one another. Although born four years before van Gogh, Edmund Gosse, who Introduction 15.
... of interpreta- tion, and acceptance of respectable social mores. Evangelical disenchantment and van Gogh were almost bound to find one another. Although born four years before van Gogh, Edmund Gosse, who Introduction 15.
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... Gosse, a distinguished naturalist and contemporary of Charles Dar- win, and his mother, Emily Bowes, a prolific evangelical tract writer. Gosse's parents were members of an austere evangelical sect called the Plymouth Brethren (John ...
... Gosse, a distinguished naturalist and contemporary of Charles Dar- win, and his mother, Emily Bowes, a prolific evangelical tract writer. Gosse's parents were members of an austere evangelical sect called the Plymouth Brethren (John ...
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... Gosse left the Plymouth Brethren to fashion his own inner life and to write free from the shackles of evangelical dogmatism, Baldwin left the black church to be- come “an honest man” and as a writer to explore the black experience with ...
... Gosse left the Plymouth Brethren to fashion his own inner life and to write free from the shackles of evangelical dogmatism, Baldwin left the black church to be- come “an honest man” and as a writer to explore the black experience with ...
Inhalt
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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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