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The new measures : a theological history of democratic practice / Ted A. Smith.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, Ted A., 1968-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
United States--Church history.
United States.
Church history.
United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
Politics and government.
Philosophy.
Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States.
Democracy.
Christianity and politics--United States.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity and culture--United States.
Christianity and culture.
Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875.
Finney, Charles G.
Physical Description:
xiii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Summary:
This book debates about religion and democracy through a cultural history of nineteenth-century revival practice.
Contents:
The flyer : a preface for theologions, ethicists, historians, and homileticians
The new measures and democracy
Theological history as eschatological memory
Now is the time
The fugleman : a brief drill in methodology
The cultural turn
Turns to invisible church cultures
Critical resignations
A resignation to reflexivity : criticism as self-criticism
A resignation to hodgepodge : practice makes public
A resignation to redemption : Rettendekritik
The form of a fugleman's faith
Some measures are plainly necessary
The house commission on measures
From ornament to means to measure
Religion is the work of man
Necessary measures
A minority report
Purposeful purposelessness
Measures for measures
Agonizing prayer
You must have something new
A sailor who lived to tell the tale
An economy of attention
The science of sensation
Caught up in the storm
The more opposition the better
It is in vain to drop the subject
Nothing's shocking
The witness of fashion, the prayer of the storm
Sinners bound to change their own hearts
Reuben Heacock
Choices waiting for choosers
The election of God
Free conversations
An opponent in theory
A friend to close for comfort
The freedom of anxious spectators
Ideological freedom
Whosoever will
Boston and Manlius
Formal equality and middle-class respectability
Respectable equality
General atonement
Personal preaching
Free churches
Coeducation
The price of resistance
Riots against respectable equality
The lynching at Oberlin
Memories from Manlius
The first of August
The measure of the self
Sir Charles Grandison
A country in masquerade
Measures of sincerity
Practicing what you preach
The authority of a star
Opponents in starring roles
After charisma : mandatory publicity
After tradition : mandatory personality
The price of fame
The subject of redemption
Gospel stories
Henry and the pirate
The time of the type
The time of the illustration
Illustrative opponents
Christian nurture now
The convert
The Word made case
Eschatological memories
Remarks, or the politics of eschatological memory.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-329) and index.
ISBN:
9780521871310
052187131X
OCLC:
70265495

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