The life of prayer in a world of science : protestants, prayer and American culture, 1870-1930 / / Rick Ostrander [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Ostrander Rick
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Disciplina: 248.3/2/097309034
• Soggetto topico: Prayer - United States - Christianity - History; Protestants - United States - History; Religion
• 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: 0-19-773995-4; 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religion in America series.; Oxford scholarship online.