Author: Ferdinand Cartwright EwerPublisher:
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Category : Christian union
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism, and on Catholicity
Author: Ferdinand Cartwright EwerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian union
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An Anxious Age
Author: Joseph BottumPublisher: Image
ISBN: 0385521464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
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.
Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism, and on Catholicity
Author: Ferdinand Cartwright EwerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian union
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Failure of Protestantism in New York and Its Causes
Author: Thomas DixonPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Is Protestantism a Failure?
Author: John CordnerPublisher:
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Category : Monotheism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Protestants
Author: Alec RyriePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735222819
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
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.
The New Englander
Author: William L. KingsleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368728253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The New Englander
Author: Independent Monthly
Author: Catholicism and Protestantism: Two Sermons Preached in Paris at the Time of the Meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, in January, 1873. Ultramontanism and Revolution: a Sermon Preached Before the French Residents in Geneva, in June, 1873
Author: Hyacinthe (Père, name in religion of Charles Jean Marie Loyson.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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