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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... tion of a beetle. With me the struggle to retain as much of my creed was tremen- dous. The dissolution of Jesus into mythologic vapour was nothing less than the death of a friend dearer to me than any other friend whom I knew. —William ...
... tion of a beetle. With me the struggle to retain as much of my creed was tremen- dous. The dissolution of Jesus into mythologic vapour was nothing less than the death of a friend dearer to me than any other friend whom I knew. —William ...
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... tion somewhere within the bounds of this quadrilateral. A rather different approach to defining evangelicalism, however, can be found in the recent work by the distinguished historian of early evangelicalism W. R. Ward. He suggests that ...
... tion somewhere within the bounds of this quadrilateral. A rather different approach to defining evangelicalism, however, can be found in the recent work by the distinguished historian of early evangelicalism W. R. Ward. He suggests that ...
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... “truth” did not permit him to withdraw silently from the evangelical tradi- tion. His rejection of the tradition was noisy, controversial, and attention grabbing. It was also born out of the disappointment of Introduction 13.
... “truth” did not permit him to withdraw silently from the evangelical tradi- tion. His rejection of the tradition was noisy, controversial, and attention grabbing. It was also born out of the disappointment of Introduction 13.
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... , literalness 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.
... , literalness 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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... tion in his dealings with Roman Catholics and infidels . Moreover , Eliot's criticism of Cumming's relentless emphasis on human sinfulness would have been more telling were it not obviated by her own relentless , and equally un ...
... tion in his dealings with Roman Catholics and infidels . Moreover , Eliot's criticism of Cumming's relentless emphasis on human sinfulness would have been more telling were it not obviated by her own relentless , and equally un ...
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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