Evangelical disenchantment : nine portraits of faith and doubt / David Hempton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hempton, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious biography.

Spiritual biography.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine creative artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including such diverse figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vincent van Gogh, and James Baldwin. Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world. Allowing his subjects to express themselves in their own voices-through letters, essays, speeches, novels, apologias, paintings-Hempton seeks to understand the factors at work in the shaping of their religious beliefs, and how their negotiations of faith informed their public and private lives. The nine were great public communicators, but in private often felt deep uncertainties. Hempton's moving portraits highlight common themes among the experiences of these disillusioned evangelicals while also revealing fresh insights into the evangelical movement and its relations to the wider culture. Featuring portraits of:· George Eliot· Frances W. Newman· Theodore Dwight Weld· Sarah Grimké· Elizabeth Cady Stanton· Frances Willard· Vincent van Gogh· Edmund Gosse· James Baldwin

Contents:

Evangelicalism and disenchantment

Evangelicalism and morality

Evangelicalism and mission

Evangelicalism and reform

Evangelicalism and feminism

Evangelicalism and secularization

Evangelicalism and childhood

Evangelicalism and race

Enchantment and disenchantment.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-223) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-35247-4

9786612352478

0-300-14282-X

OCLC:

391052203