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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480278403321

Autore

Piggin Stuart

Titolo

Attending to the national soul [[electronic resource] ] : evangelical Christians in Australian history 1914-2014 / / Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clayton, Victoria : , : Monash University Publishing, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

9781925835526

1925835529

9781925835519

1925835510

9781925835366

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (658 pages)

Collana

Fountain of public prosperity ; ; 2

Disciplina

279.408

Soggetti

History - Australian studies

Christianity - Australia - History

Christianity - Australia

Evangelicalism - Australia

Evangelicalism - Australia - History

Electronic books.

Australia Church History

Australia Church history 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-601) and index.

Nota di contenuto

PART A: Faith under Fire, 1914-1945 -- 1. Evangelical Churches and the Home Front during the Great War, 1914-1918 -- 2. Christian Soldiers and the Front Line during the Great War, 1914-1918 -- 3. Mending the Broken: Evangelical Churches in the 1920s and the Great Depression -- 4. Theological Warfare between the Wars -- 5. Winning Souls and Shaping the Australian Soul: Inter-War Missions -- 6. Reluctant Combatants: Evangelical Responses to World War II -- 7. In Extremis: War-Time Ministries and Prisoners of War -- PART B: Faith and the Secular Challenge, 1946-2014 -- 8. Crusading for Peace and



Prosperity, 1946-1965 -- 9. Crusading for Souls, 1946-1965 -- 10. The `Reworked Paradigm': Reformed Evangelicalism, 1946-1965 -- 11. Shocks to the System: Secular Challenges, 1966-1979 -- 12. Evangelical Responses to Secular Australia, 1966-1979 -- 13. Identity Crisis, 1980-1989 --

14. Evangelical Responses: Defence, Evangelism, Welfare, Spirituality, 1980-1989 -- 15. The Struggle to Recover Evangelicalism's Prophetic Voice, 1990-2000 -- 16. Tensions and Initiatives within the Evangelical Movement in the 1990s -- 17. Crusading for the Soul of the City, the Nation, and the World, 2001-2014 -- 18. Evangelical Initiatives in the Public Space in the 21st Century -- Conclusion: Attending to the cure of the national soul.

Sommario/riassunto

This ambitious study seeks to recognise the influence of 'the public opening up of the word of Christ to the world', 'to tell the truth about his influence' on Australia's social and cultural history, and to show that, in spite of secularism's success in marginalising faith, evangelical Christianity continues to be as much a public ethic as a personal credo.