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Author : George Lewis
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Impressions of America and the American Churches written by George Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Lewis (of Ormiston.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Impressions of America and the American Churches written by George Lewis (of Ormiston.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Lewis (of Ormiston.)
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Impressions of America and the American Churches written by George Lewis (of Ormiston.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Lewis (of Ormiston.)
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Download or read book Impressions of America and the American Churches written by George Lewis (of Ormiston.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Lewis
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Download or read book Impressions of America and the American Churches written by George Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Strempek Shea
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807072240
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Sundays in America written by Suzanne Strempek Shea and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited, spiritual pilgrimage to different Christian churches for a year of Sundays-from storefronts to mega-churches, from Massachusetts to Maui When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had turned away from the Catholic Church of her childhood, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she wanted to recapture. She set out on a yearlong to visit a different church every Sunday for a year-a journey that would take her through the broad spectrum of contemporary Christianity lived in this country, from her New England home to the West Coast, the Deep South, the Midwest, and even to Hawaii. Beginning with a rousing Baptist Easter service in Harlem, including a sing-along at the Cowboy Church in Colorado's Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and a multimedia experience at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, the largest church in the country, Shea approaches each congregation with the curiosity of a newcomer and with respect for each unique expression of faith. Sundays in America weaves the threads of Christianity in America into a vibrant tapestry, an essential guide for those seeking a new house for their worship, as well as a colorful road trip for the armchair explorer.
Author : Joseph Bottum
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385521464
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book An Anxious Age written by Joseph Bottum and published by Image. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Author : Adjunct Faculty and Coordinator Joel Looper
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ISBN 13 : 9781481314510
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Bonhoeffer's America written by Adjunct Faculty and Coordinator Joel Looper and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer came to Union Theological Seminary looking for a cloud of witnesses. What he found instead disturbed, angered, and perplexed him. There is no theology here, he wrote to a German colleague. The New York churches, if possible, were even worse: They preach about virtually everything; only one thing is not addressed... namely, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the cross, sin and forgiveness, death and life. Bonhoeffer acts for American Protestantism as an Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America, a cultural and political analysis of the new republic, appeared a century prior. But what the Berlin theologian found was, if possible, more significant than the observations of the French aristocrat: Protestantism in America was a Protestantism without Reformation. Bonhoeffer's America explicates these criticisms, then turns to consider what they tell us about Bonhoeffer's own theological commitments and whether, in fact, his judgments about America were accurate. Joel Looper first brings Bonhoeffer's reformational and Barthian commitments into relief against the work of several Union theologians and the broader American theological milieu. He then turns to Bonhoeffer's own genealogy of American Protestantism to explore why it developed as it did: steeped in dissenting influences, the American church became one that resisted critique by the word of God. American Protestantism is not Protestant, Bonhoeffer shows us, not like the churches that emerged from the Continental Reformation. This difference gave rise to the secularization of the American church. Bonhoeffer's claims against the church in the United States, Looper contends, hold strong, even after considering objections to this narrative--Bonhoeffer's experience with Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and the possibility that Bonhoeffer, during his time in Tegel Prison, abandoned the theological commitments that undergirded his critique. Bonhoeffer's America concludes that what Bonhoeffer saw in America, the twenty-first-century American church should strive to see for itself.
Author : Jeffrey C. Benton
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603062297
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Respectable and Disreputable written by Jeffrey C. Benton and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations--military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities--religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans--at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas--shared very similar leisure time activities.
Author : Timothy Matovina
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116357X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Latino Catholicism written by Timothy Matovina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the growing population of Hispanic-Americans worshipping in the Catholic Church in the United States.
Author : Thomas Bergler
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802866840
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Juvenilization of American Christianity written by Thomas Bergler and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened? In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into four major American church traditions -- African American, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Bergler shows too how this "juvenilization" of churches has led to widespread spiritual immaturity, consumerism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy. Bergler s critique further offers constructive suggestions for taming juvenilization. Watch the trailer:
Author : Henry Caswall
Publisher : London : Printed for J.G. & F. Rivington
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Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book America, and the American Church written by Henry Caswall and published by London : Printed for J.G. & F. Rivington. This book was released on 1839 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Caswall
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book America, and the American Church. With plates written by Henry Caswall and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 918 pages
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Download or read book The Sunday Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey C. Benton
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603062599
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Through Others' Eyes written by Jeffrey C. Benton and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Other's Eyes is a collection of twenty-seven published accounts of Montgomery, Alabama, covered the thirty-six years between April 1825 and May 1861. With two exceptions, the stays in Montgomery were quite short. Each account is preceded by biographical information about the author. The accounts were written by both famous and obscure travelers—American and European political and military personages, ministers, gentlemen scientists, authors and periodical correspondents, lecturers, entertainers, and even by what were professional travelers. In general, they wrote for commercial reasons; travel books were popular in the nineteenth century. Besides the inevitable comments on the horrible state of accommodations and food, and the trials of travel by stage coach, steamboat, and railway, they commented on slavery, of course, but also on natural history, agriculture, gambling and drinking, Montgomery's hinterland, and Alabamians. The comments on the latter were both complimentary and not. Europeans and Americans tended to have differing opinions. Although the travelers' assessments were made hurriedly and tended to focus on differences rather than similarities—probably to promote sales—they do provide a captivating insight into antebellum Montgomery. Through Other's Eyes is a companion volume to The Very Worst Road: Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1848.
Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608946
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Church and Stage written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre as an inversion of the house of God, similar to the church in architectural structure and organization but wholly different in purpose and values. This book explores the many ways in which religious institutions supported by capitalism profoundly affected the early development of American theatre. The author analyzes the church's critical view toward common theatre practices, including the use of female and child performers, and the lower class alliance with the stage. Three appendices provide period correspondence, including an excerpt from Mark Twain's February 1871 "Memoranda," in which Twain criticizes an Episcopalian reverend for denying church burial to a popular stage comedian.
Author : Josephine F. Pacheco
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888923
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Pearl written by Josephine F. Pacheco and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.
