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John Williamson Nevin

By Wentz, Richard E.

John Williamson Nevin

By Wentz, Richard E.

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This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian, Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the college and theological seminary of the German Reformed Church located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The story is a neglected aspect of American studies. Richard Wentz provides a kind of post-modern perspective on Nevin, presenting him as a distinctively American thinker, rather than as a reactionary romantic. Although influenced by German philosophy, historical studies, and theology, Nevin's thought was a profound response to the American public context of his day. He was, in many respects, a public theologian, judging the prevailing development of American Christianity as a new religion that was fashioning its own disintegration and that of American culture at large. Nevin's reinterpretation of catholicity in the American context opened the way for a radical understanding of religion and of American public life.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
180
Release Date:
1997-03-13
Publication Date:
1997-06-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195082435
ISBN13:
9780195082432
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[email protected]
Weight:
420 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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