Practicing Protestants

Author : Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp,Leigh E. Schmidt,Mark Valeri
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 080188361X

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Practicing Protestants by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp,Leigh E. Schmidt,Mark Valeri Pdf

This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism. Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.

Author : Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp,Leigh E. Schmidt,Mark Valeri
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0801883628

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Practicing Protestants by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp,Leigh E. Schmidt,Mark Valeri Pdf

This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism. Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.

Author : Sarah Covington,Kathryn Reklis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671388

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Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts by Sarah Covington,Kathryn Reklis Pdf

The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than reject art and aestheticism, Protestants developed their own aesthetic values, which Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts addresses as it identifies and explains the link between theological aesthetics and the arts within a Protestant framework across five-hundred years of history. Featuring essays from an international gathering of leading experts working across a diverse set of disciplines, Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts is the first study of its kind, containing essays that address Protestantism and the fine arts (visual art, music, literature, and architecture), and historical and contemporary Protestant theological perspectives on the subject of beauty and imagination. Contributors challenge accepted preconceptions relating to the boundaries of theological aesthetics and religiously determined art; disrupt traditional understandings of periodization and disciplinarity; and seek to open rich avenues for new fields of research. Building on renewed interest in Protestantism in the study of religion and modernity and the return to aesthetics in Christian theological inquiry, this volume will be of significant interest to scholars of Theology, Aesthetics, Art and Architectural History, Literary Criticism, and Religious History.

Author : Joseph D. Driskill
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819217592

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Protestant Spiritual Exercises by Joseph D. Driskill Pdf

Protestant Spiritual Exercises

Author : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780735222816

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Protestants by Alec Ryrie Pdf

On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses, a landmark history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. "Ryrie writes that his aim 'is to persuade you that we cannot understand the modern age without understanding the dynamic history of Protestant Christianity.' To which I reply: Mission accomplished." –Jon Meacham, author of American Lion and Thomas Jefferson Five hundred years ago a stubborn German monk challenged the Pope with a radical vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he set in motion toppled governments, upended social norms and transformed millions of people's understanding of their relationship with God. In this dazzling history, Alec Ryrie makes the case that we owe many of the rights and freedoms we have cause to take for granted--from free speech to limited government--to our Protestant roots. Fired up by their faith, Protestants have embarked on courageous journeys into the unknown like many rebels and refugees who made their way to our shores. Protestants created America and defined its special brand of entrepreneurial diligence. Some turned to their bibles to justify bold acts of political opposition, others to spurn orthodoxies and insight on their God-given rights. Above all Protestants have fought for their beliefs, establishing a tradition of principled opposition and civil disobedience that is as alive today as it was 500 years ago. In this engrossing and magisterial work, Alec Ryrie makes the case that whether or not you are yourself a Protestant, you live in a world shaped by Protestants.

Author : Devin Rose
Publisher : Catholic Answers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1938983610

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The Protestant's Dilemma by Devin Rose Pdf

What if Protestantism were true? What if the Reformers really were heroes, the Bible the sole rule of faith, and Christ's Church just an invisible collection of loosely united believers? As an Evangelical, Devin Rose used to believe all of it. Then one day the nagging questions began. He noticed things about Protestant belief and practice that didn't add up. He began following the logic of Protestant claims to places he never expected it to go -leading to conclusions no Christians would ever admit to holding. In The Protestant's Dilemma, Rose examines over thirty of those conclusions, showing with solid evidence, compelling reason, and gentle humor how the major tenets of Protestantism - if honestly pursued to their furthest extent - wind up in dead ends. The only escape? Catholic truth. Rose patiently unpacks each instance, and shows how Catholicism solves the Protestant's dilemma through the witness of Scripture, Christian history, and the authority with which Christ himself undeniably vested his Church.

Author : James F. White
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426738784

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The Sacraments in Protestant Practice and Faith by James F. White Pdf

The sacraments were a major factor in the Reformation of the sixteenth century. Ever since, they have been an important part of Protestant church life. Major changes have occurred in our time as most traditions have revised their sacramental rites and experienced many changes in sacramental practices. This book traces the most significant practices in the past five centuries, explains how they often led to controversies, and examines the faith that was expressed and experienced in the sacraments. James F. White attempts to depict the whole sweep of Protestant sacramental life, so that an overall picture is possible. And he outlines the possibilities for future developments.

Author : Joseph Bottum
Publisher : Image
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385521468

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An Anxious Age by Joseph Bottum Pdf

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 : Kai Arzheimer,Jocelyn Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Voting
ISBN : PSU:000065138212

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Electoral Behavior: Social-political models by Kai Arzheimer,Jocelyn Evans Pdf

Author : Archibald Henry Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Children
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044373145

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A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Infants by Archibald Henry Simpson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X030266488

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Studies in American Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172142989548

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CJLACS by Anonim Pdf

Author : Archibald Henry Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Children
ISBN : UIUC:30112102667117

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A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Infants by Archibald Henry Simpson Pdf

Author : Hadley Kruczek-Aaron
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055503

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Everyday Religion by Hadley Kruczek-Aaron Pdf

In the early nineteenth century, antebellum America witnessed a Second Great Awakening led by evangelical Protestants who gathered in revivals and contributed to the blossoming of social movements throughout the country. Preachers and reformers promoted a Christian lifestyle, and evangelical fervor overtook entire communities. One such community in Smithfield, New York, led by activist Gerrit Smith, is the focus of Hadley Kruczek-Aaron’s study.

Author : Brian Matz
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493406647

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Introducing Protestant Social Ethics by Brian Matz Pdf

Despite their rich tradition of social concern, Protestants have historically struggled to articulate why, whether, and how to challenge unethical social structures. This book introduces Protestants to the biblical and historical background of Christian social ethics, inviting them to understand the basis for social action and engage with the broader tradition. It embraces and explains long-standing Christian reflection on social ethics and shows how Scripture and Christian history connect to current social justice issues. Each chapter includes learning outcomes and chapter highlights.