Author: Donald Grant Mitchell
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Doctor Johns
Author: Donald Grant Mitchell
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Doctor Johns; being a narrative of certain events in the life of an orthodox minister of Connecticut
Author: Donald Grant Mitchell
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Doctor Johns
Author: Donald Grant Mitchell
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Works of Donald G. Mitchell ...: Doctor Johns; being a narrative of certain events in the life of an orthodox minister of Connecticut
Author: Donald Grant Mitchell
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Displacing the Divine
Author: Douglas Alan Walrath
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231521804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Displacing the Divine offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231521804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Displacing the Divine offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.
Literary Contrasts
Author: Charles Alphonso Smith
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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English Biography
Author: Waldo Hilary Dunn
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Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Church Review, and Ecclesiasiastical Register
Author: Nathaniel Smith Richardson
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register
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Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Languages : en
Pages : 950
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The American Quarterly Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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