Original sin and everyday Protestants : the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an age of anxiety / Andrew S. Finstuen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finstuen, Andrew S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sin, Original--History of doctrines--20th century.

Sin, Original.

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971.

Niebuhr, Reinhold.

Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.

Graham, Billy.

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965.

Tillich, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar ""age of anxiety"" as the Cold War took roo

Contents:

Introduction

Protestantism in an age of anxiety : the captive and theological revivals of midcentury

A curious trinity : the prophet, the evangelist, and the theologian

Original sin : the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith

Reinhold Niebuhr, America's prophet-pastor

Billy Graham, America's evangelist

Paul Tillich, seelsorger in America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908838-7-2

1-4696-0457-4

0-8078-9853-8

OCLC:

642661007