bokomslag John Williamson Nevin, American Theologian
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John Williamson Nevin, American Theologian

Richard E Wentz

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  • 184 sidor
  • 1997
This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian, Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the college and theological seminary of the German Reformed Church located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The story is a neglected aspect of American studies. Wentz provides a kind of post-modern perspective on Nevin, presenting him as a distinctively American thinker, rather than as a reactionary romantic. Although influenced by German philosophy, historical studies, and theology, Nevin's thought was a profound response to the American public context of his day. He was, in many respects, a public theologian, judging the prevailing development of American Christianity as a new religion that was fashioning its own disintegration and that of American culture at large. Nevin's reinterpretation of catholicity in the American context opened the way for a radical understanding of religion and of American public life.
  • Författare: Richard E Wentz
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780195082432
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 184
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1997-05-01
  • Förlag: OUP USA