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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... devotion as in the Gosse household, even after, or perhaps especially after, the premature death of Gosse's mother.Whether entirely accurate or not (a point more fully discussed later in the text), Gosse's Father and Son is perhaps the ...
... devotion as in the Gosse household, even after, or perhaps especially after, the premature death of Gosse's mother.Whether entirely accurate or not (a point more fully discussed later in the text), Gosse's Father and Son is perhaps the ...
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... devotion to language and music. Nevertheless, as her life unfolded Rosen found herself turning more to scholarship than to the Bible for answers to her deepest questions. She wanted to be more engaged in the world, not less, and to ...
... devotion to language and music. Nevertheless, as her life unfolded Rosen found herself turning more to scholarship than to the Bible for answers to her deepest questions. She wanted to be more engaged in the world, not less, and to ...
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... glory alone, thereby rendering morally useless those acts occasioned by fellow feeling for others, Eliot asserts that human beings who act out of love, sympathy, charity, affection, or devotion Evangelicalism and Morality 25.
... glory alone, thereby rendering morally useless those acts occasioned by fellow feeling for others, Eliot asserts that human beings who act out of love, sympathy, charity, affection, or devotion Evangelicalism and Morality 25.
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... devotion are contributors to the moral good of humanity in their own terms and for their own sake.To be sure the “idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and en- dure for our fellow-men,but who will pour new life into ...
... devotion are contributors to the moral good of humanity in their own terms and for their own sake.To be sure the “idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and en- dure for our fellow-men,but who will pour new life into ...
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... devotion to evangelical biographies (notably of William Wilberforce and Hannah More), an almost morbid introspection, a genuine concern for the sick and the needy, and a world-denying attitude toward fiction and theater. Her teenage ...
... devotion to evangelical biographies (notably of William Wilberforce and Hannah More), an almost morbid introspection, a genuine concern for the sick and the needy, and a world-denying attitude toward fiction and theater. Her teenage ...
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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