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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... Biblical inerrancy, premil- lennial dispensationalism, propositional systems of all kinds, and bureaucratic denominationalism all eroded what was once an engaging intellectual culture. An infallible text read with wooden literalism, an ...
... Biblical inerrancy, premil- lennial dispensationalism, propositional systems of all kinds, and bureaucratic denominationalism all eroded what was once an engaging intellectual culture. An infallible text read with wooden literalism, an ...
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... biblical hermeneutics were disastrous for women, but her continuing affection for the Midwestern Methodism of her youth put a brake on her skepticism. While Willard chal- lenged male interpretations of the Bible, Stanton thought the ...
... biblical hermeneutics were disastrous for women, but her continuing affection for the Midwestern Methodism of her youth put a brake on her skepticism. While Willard chal- lenged male interpretations of the Bible, Stanton thought the ...
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... biblical prophecy , and his ability to relate ancient writings to contemporary events . Cumming was obsessed with the second coming of Christ and was persuaded by current events that the time was near . The European revolutions of 1848 ...
... biblical prophecy , and his ability to relate ancient writings to contemporary events . Cumming was obsessed with the second coming of Christ and was persuaded by current events that the time was near . The European revolutions of 1848 ...
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... biblical literalism, and social conservatism, evangelicalism morphed from a movement influenced by enlightenment optimism, in which humans could employ activist means to achieve divine ends, to one influenced by romantic pessimism, in ...
... biblical literalism, and social conservatism, evangelicalism morphed from a movement influenced by enlightenment optimism, in which humans could employ activist means to achieve divine ends, to one influenced by romantic pessimism, in ...
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... biblical criti- cism , and from the solar system to Mosaic cosmology . Of particular impor- tance was her reading of Charles Hennell's Inquiry Concerning the Origins of Christianity ( 1838 ; 2nd ed . , 1841 ) , and her friendship with ...
... biblical criti- cism , and from the solar system to Mosaic cosmology . Of particular impor- tance was her reading of Charles Hennell's Inquiry Concerning the Origins of Christianity ( 1838 ; 2nd ed . , 1841 ) , and her friendship 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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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