John Williamson Nevin: American Theologian - Couverture rigide

Wentz, Richard E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195082435 ISBN 13 : 9780195082432

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1997

Synopsis

John Williamson Nevin, American Theologian This post-modern analysis of the 19th-century thinker Nevin, presents him as an American thinker, rather than as a reactionary romantic; a public theologian - judging the development of American Christianity as a new religion that was fashioning its own disintegration and that of American culture. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

A thoughtful, scholarly reinterpretation....Wentz's work should be read by today's theologians whose penchant for relevance needs the correction of Nevin, who reminds us that our own great traditions, rightly understood and intelligently appropriated, can be just as revelant as the issues of today's world. (Religious Studies Review)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195082435
• ISBN 13: 9780195082432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 178