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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... encounters with various species of evangelical Christian- ity, but who did not remain in that tradition. What attracted them to evan- gelicalism and what later caused disenchantment are intriguing questions that reveal much, not only ...
... encounters with various species of evangelical Christian- ity, but who did not remain in that tradition. What attracted them to evan- gelicalism and what later caused disenchantment are intriguing questions that reveal much, not only ...
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... encounter with the psychological battering ram of evangelical revivalism is vividly recounted and vigorously repudiated, and is far from unique. The history of popular evangelicalism is replete with Elmer Gantry stories of emotional ...
... encounter with the psychological battering ram of evangelical revivalism is vividly recounted and vigorously repudiated, and is far from unique. The history of popular evangelicalism is replete with Elmer Gantry stories of emotional ...
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... encounter with John Nelson Darby, the father-founder of the theologi- cal tradition of dispensationalism, which has exercised such a profound influence on American evangelicals/fundamentalists and their perceptions of events in the ...
... encounter with John Nelson Darby, the father-founder of the theologi- cal tradition of dispensationalism, which has exercised such a profound influence on American evangelicals/fundamentalists and their perceptions of events in the ...
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... encounters with evangelicalism intensified it to such a degree that it remained with them for the rest of their lives. The book that follows is designed to be a work of history, not a comment on the current state of evangelicalism in ...
... encounters with evangelicalism intensified it to such a degree that it remained with them for the rest of their lives. The book that follows is designed to be a work of history, not a comment on the current state of evangelicalism in ...
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... encounter with an Irish evangelical teacher , Maria Lewis , who has been described as having “ a kind heart and a good sense of humour about everything except religion . ' " 14 Since Eliot's rejection of evangelicalism came at the ...
... encounter with an Irish evangelical teacher , Maria Lewis , who has been described as having “ a kind heart and a good sense of humour about everything except religion . ' " 14 Since Eliot's rejection of evangelicalism came at the ...
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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