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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810173103321

Autore

Ostrander Richard <1965->

Titolo

The life of prayer in a world of science : Protestants, prayer, and American culture, 1870-1930 / / Rick Ostrander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-028575-3

0-19-773995-4

1-280-47350-9

0-19-803114-9

1-4237-6063-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Religion in America series

Disciplina

248.3/2/097309034

Soggetti

Prayer - Christianity - History - 19th century

Prayer - Christianity - History - 20th century

Protestant churches - United States - Doctrines - History - 19th century

Protestant churches - United States - Doctrines - History - 20th century

United States Church history 19th century

United States Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; ONE: A Final Act of Purification: The Modern Scientific Attack on Prayer; TWO: Proving the Living God: Answered Prayer as a Modern Evangelical Apologetic; THREE: The Spiritual Unrest: The Cultural Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FOUR: Divine Immanence: The Ideological Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FIVE: A Sane Mysticism: The Christocentric Liberal Ethic of Prayer; SIX: The New Belief in Prayer: Healing and Intercession in Liberal Protestantism; SEVEN: The Religion of a Mature Mind: Liberal Devotional Teachings in the Early Twentieth Century; EIGHT: Modernism and Prayer in the Twenties; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

By the end of the 19th century, the ascendance of science had made it difficult to believe in a God who intervened. American evangelicals chose to counterattack in response to the assault on petitionary prayer by naturalistic scientists.