Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening
Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening

Author: Terry D. Bilhartz

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780838632277

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This book explores the varied terrain of religious activity in early national Baltimore. It examines the development and consequences of the voluntary church system in one urban center during the ferment and change of the formative age for American religion.

Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing
Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing

Author: Sara Paretsky

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 022633774X

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Popular and groundbreaking crime novelist Sara Paretsky earned a PhD in history at the University of Chicago in the mid-1970s, with a dissertation on moral philosophy and religion in New England in the early and mid-nineteenth century. This edition of that work analyzes attempts by theologians at the Andover Seminary to square and secure Calvinist religious beliefs with emerging knowledge from history and the sciences. As Paretsky shows, the open-minded scholasticism of these theologians paradoxically led to the weakening of their intellectual credibility as conventional religious belief structures became discredited, and this failure incited reactionary forces within Calvinism. Leading religious scholar Amanda Porterfield provides an afterword discussing where Paretsky s work fits into the contemporary study of religion. Paretsky s foreword offers a sobering picture of what it was like to be a female graduate student at the University of Chicago in the 1970s."

Reformed Theology in America
Reformed Theology in America

Author: David F. Wells

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780802800961

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"Modern Reformed Theology In America Has shown astonishing variety in its expression. Grouped under the name "Reformed" are, in fact, five diverse traditions - the Princeton theology, Westminster Calvinism, the Dutch schools, Southern Reformed thought, and Neoorthodoxy. This book provides penetrating analysis of these five traditions and the two leading theologians of each. The result is an important advance in our understanding of what being Reformed has meant and what it should now mean in the late twentieth century." -- Publisher.