Romanticism in American Theology: Nevin and Schaff at Mercersburg

Romanticism in American Theology: Nevin and Schaff at Mercersburg
ISBN-10
1725217988
ISBN-13
9781725217980
Category
Religion
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2007-01-01
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
James Hastings Nichols

Description

This is a study of religious thought and life in America in the generation before the Civil War. It focuses on Nevin and Schaff, who pioneered in America the theological reinterpretations stimulated by German idealism in philosophy and the new theories of historical development. They were also spokesmen of the romantic interest in Christian traditions, community, and sacraments and in this interest opposed the antihistorical individualism predominant in American religion. Charles Hodge, Orestes Brownson, Horace Bushnell, R. J. Wilberforce, and the American Lutherans all debated with them. Nevin and Schaff were the chief nineteenth-century American prophets of the contemporary ecumenical movement.

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