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The new measures : a theological history of democratic practice / Ted A. Smith.
- 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
- Online:
- Publisher description
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