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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... Christians. For all the well- known and oft debated problems associated with reconciling faith and sci- ence, the ability to reconcile artistic creativity with Christian orthodoxy has proved to be a much bigger stumbling block for the ...
... Christians. For all the well- known and oft debated problems associated with reconciling faith and sci- ence, the ability to reconcile artistic creativity with Christian orthodoxy has proved to be a much bigger stumbling block for the ...
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... Christian tradition. Indeed so complex were the operational factors in Weld's particular faith journey, many of which were too personal to write about, even in private letters, that some degree of agnosticism is appropriate in the ...
... Christian tradition. Indeed so complex were the operational factors in Weld's particular faith journey, many of which were too personal to write about, even in private letters, that some degree of agnosticism is appropriate in the ...
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... Christ's love, then to Christ's followers, and then to Christ's poor, but soon found the whole ecclesiastical ... Christian service, van Gogh was a poor candidate for any creed that emphasized deference to authority, literalness ...
... Christ's love, then to Christ's followers, and then to Christ's poor, but soon found the whole ecclesiastical ... Christian service, van Gogh was a poor candidate for any creed that emphasized deference to authority, literalness ...
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... Christian father), but with some of the same intellectual components, is rep- resented in the life of James Baldwin. Baldwin, unlike the other figures rep- resented in this book, was not born into a relatively comfortable bourgeois ...
... Christian father), but with some of the same intellectual components, is rep- resented in the life of James Baldwin. Baldwin, unlike the other figures rep- resented in this book, was not born into a relatively comfortable bourgeois ...
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... Christianity of the nineteenth century, let him use his spiritualizing alembic and disperse it into impalpable ether. Let him preach less of Christ than of Antichrist; let him be less definite in showing what sin is than in showing who ...
... Christianity of the nineteenth century, let him use his spiritualizing alembic and disperse it into impalpable ether. Let him preach less of Christ than of Antichrist; let him be less definite in showing what sin is than in showing who ...
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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