Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel With the American Republic, 1830-1860 - Brossura

Hanley, Mark Y.

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ISBN 10: 0807821217 ISBN 13: 9780807821213

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Antebellum mainline Protestant ministers are often portrayed as heralds of a national "faith" in republican progress that reached its high point in the three decades before the Civil War. Mark Hanley argues, however, that the liberal culture that emerged in America between 1830 and 1860 seriously eroded mainstream Protestant confidence in the spiritual yield of republican liberty and faith. Through their "religious jeremiads," the vast body of sermons and sermonic literature that reached inward to the exclusive world of believers rather than outward to the nation at large, troubled ministers responded to the growing distance between their hopes for spiritual community and an emergent liberal culture marked by acquisitive materialism and social and intellectual diversity.
By tapping neglected sources that give fuller focus to Protestant religious interests, Hanley challenges the notion that enthusiastic endorsements of millennialism and material progress had effectively silenced mainstream Protestant dissent in the late antebellum period. He locates this dissent within a transdenominational struggle to secure Protestantism's spiritual claims from the materialism, cultural claims from the materialism, cultural arrogance, and radical freedom of a new liberal order.

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L'autore:

Mark Y. Hanley is assistant professor of history at Northeast Missouri State University.

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Book by Hanley Mark Y

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0807821217
• ISBN 13: 9780807821213
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224