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Autore: |
Ostrander Richard <1965->
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Titolo: |
The life of prayer in a world of science : Protestants, prayer, and American culture, 1870-1930 / / Rick Ostrander
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
Disciplina: | 248.3/2/097309034 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Church history 19th century |
United States Church history 20th century | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The life of prayer in a world of science ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-028575-3 |
0-19-773995-4 | |
1-280-47350-9 | |
0-19-803114-9 | |
1-4237-6063-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810173103321 |
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