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

• Autore: Finstuen Andrew S
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 233/.14; 233.14
• Soggetto topico: Sin, Original - History of doctrines - 20th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Original sin and everyday Protestants
• ISBN: 979-88-908838-7-2; 1-4696-0457-4; 0-8078-9853-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972351503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II