The character of God : recovering the lost literary power of American Protestantism / Thomas E. Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Thomas E., 1962-

Series:

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

Religion in America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Attributes--History of doctrines--19th century.

God.

Christianity and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Christianity and literature.

Protestant churches--United States--Doctrines--History--19th century.

Protestant churches.

God--Attributes--History of doctrines--20th century.

Christianity and literature--United States--History--20th century.

History.

God--Attributes--History of doctrines.

God--Attributes.

United States.

Protestant churches--United States--Doctrines--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Character Styles 3

Part I The Neoclassical and Sentimental God of the Nineteenth Century

2 The Problem of God's Anger 19

3 Serenity and Torment: William Ellery Channing, Edwards A. Park, Charles Hodge, and Archibald Alexander Hodge 39

4 Sympathy and Alienation: Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe 56

Part II The Romantic God of the Nineteenth Century

5 Vitality and Anger: W. G. T. Shedd 79

6 Love in the Trinity: James Henley Thornwell, George Griffin, and Samuel J. Baird 95

7 Desire and Disgust: Horace Bushnell 113

Part III The Vague God of the Twentieth Century

8 Modernism and Literature: Theodore Munger and Amos N. Wilder 137

9 The Social Gospel and Its Critics: Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and J. Gresham Machen 160

10 The Limitations of Political Theology: Carl Henry, Harvey Cox, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 180

11 Prospects 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-261) and index.

ISBN:

0195112024

OCLC:

35835739