Hollinger After Cloven Tongues of Fire

Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4599-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hollinger, David A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1. The Accommodation of Protestant Christianity with the Enlightenment: An Old Drama Still Being Enacted 1

2. After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity 18

3. The Realist-Pacifist Summit Meeting of March 1942 and the Political Reorientation of Ecumenical Protestantism in the United States 56

4. Justification by Verification: The Scientific Challenge to the Moral Authority of Christianity in Modern America 82

5. James, Clifford, and the Scientific Conscience 103

6. Damned for God's Glory: William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant Culture 117

7. Communalist and Dispersionist Approaches to American Jewish History in an Increasingly Post-Jewish Era 138

8. Church People and Others 170

9. Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity 190

10. Religious Ideas: Should They Be Critically Engaged or Given a Pass? 199

Epilogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and Protestant Liberalism 211

Index 227

Über Autor(innen)

David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former president of the Organization of American Historians. His books include Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (Princeton) and Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism.