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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972351503321

Autore

Finstuen Andrew S

Titolo

Original sin and everyday Protestants : the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an age of anxiety / / Andrew S. Finstuen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009

ISBN

979-88-908838-7-2

1-4696-0457-4

0-8078-9853-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

233/.14

233.14

Soggetti

Sin, Original - History of doctrines - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Protestantism in an age of anxiety : the captive and theological revivals of midcentury -- A curious trinity : the prophet, the evangelist, and the theologian -- Original sin : the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith -- Reinhold Niebuhr, America's prophet-pastor -- Billy Graham, America's evangelist -- Paul Tillich, seelsorger in America.

Sommario/riassunto

In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar ""age of anxiety"" as the Cold War took roo