Religion and twentieth-century American intellectual life /
Religion and twentieth-century American intellectual life /
edited by Michael J. Lacey.
- ix, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
- Woodrow Wilson Center series .
- Woodrow Wilson Center series. .
Essays from a conference held in 1986 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographical references.
The academic revolution and American religious thought / Religion and American intellectual history, 1945-1985 : reflections on an uneasy relationship / Evangelicals and the scientific culture : an overview / An enthusiasm for humanity : the social emphasis in religion and its accommodation in Protestant theology / John Dewey, American theology, and scientific politics / The Niebuhr brothers and the liberal Protestant heritage / Justification by verification : the scientific challenge to the moral authority of Christianity in modern America / On the scientific study of religion in the United States, 1870-1980 / On the intellectual marginality of American theology / Theology, public discourse, and the American tradition / Michael L. Lacey -- Henry F. May -- George M. Marsden -- William McGuire King -- Bruce Kuklick -- Richard Wrightman Fox -- David A. Hollinger -- Murray G. Murphey -- Van A. Harvey -- David Tracy. Introduction: Afterword:
Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged from the challenges to religious belief posed by nineteenth-century science and scholarship--the traditionalist, the naturalist, and the modernist responses--the volume is organized to bring out the continuing interplay of reciprocal influences among them. The contributors show that a dialectic between naturalistic and religious points of view has contributed significantly to the character and style of modern American thought. -- Publisher.
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Religious thought--United States--Congresses.
United States--Religion.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century--Congresses.
United States--Religion--1901-1945--Congresses.
United States--Religion--1945---Congresses.
United States--Religion--19th century--Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
BL2525 / .R4625 1989
200/.973
Essays from a conference held in 1986 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographical references.
The academic revolution and American religious thought / Religion and American intellectual history, 1945-1985 : reflections on an uneasy relationship / Evangelicals and the scientific culture : an overview / An enthusiasm for humanity : the social emphasis in religion and its accommodation in Protestant theology / John Dewey, American theology, and scientific politics / The Niebuhr brothers and the liberal Protestant heritage / Justification by verification : the scientific challenge to the moral authority of Christianity in modern America / On the scientific study of religion in the United States, 1870-1980 / On the intellectual marginality of American theology / Theology, public discourse, and the American tradition / Michael L. Lacey -- Henry F. May -- George M. Marsden -- William McGuire King -- Bruce Kuklick -- Richard Wrightman Fox -- David A. Hollinger -- Murray G. Murphey -- Van A. Harvey -- David Tracy. Introduction: Afterword:
Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged from the challenges to religious belief posed by nineteenth-century science and scholarship--the traditionalist, the naturalist, and the modernist responses--the volume is organized to bring out the continuing interplay of reciprocal influences among them. The contributors show that a dialectic between naturalistic and religious points of view has contributed significantly to the character and style of modern American thought. -- Publisher.
0521375606 9780521375603 0521407753 9780521407755
89000962
Religious thought--United States--Congresses.
United States--Religion.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century--Congresses.
United States--Religion--1901-1945--Congresses.
United States--Religion--1945---Congresses.
United States--Religion--19th century--Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
BL2525 / .R4625 1989
200/.973