Charles Lindbergh : a religious biography of America's most infamous pilot / Christopher Gehrz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gehrz, Christopher, 1975- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Library of religious biography

Library of religious biography series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974--Religion.

Air pilots--United States--Biography.

Air pilots.

Religion.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 265 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh's life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator--the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight--he has since become increasingly identified with his sympathies for white supremacy, eugenics, and the Nazi regime in Germany. Underexplored amid all this is Lindbergh's spiritual life. What beliefs drove the contradictory impulses of this twentieth-century icon? -- An apostle of technological progress who encountered God in the wildernesses he sought to protect, an anti-Semitic opponent of US intervention in World War II who had a Jewish scripture inscribed on his gravestone, and a critic of Christianity who admired Christ, Lindbergh defies conventional categories. But spirituality undoubtedly mattered to him a great deal. Influenced by his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh--a self-described "lapsed Presbyterian" who longed to live "in grace"--and friends like Alexis Carrel (a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon, eugenicist, and Catholic mystic) and Jim Newton (an evangelical businessman), he spent much of his adult life reflecting on mortality, divinity, and metaphysics. In this short biography, Christopher Gehrz represents Lindbergh as he was, neither an adherent nor an atheist, a historical case study of an increasingly familiar contemporary phenomenon: the "spiritual but not religious." -- For all his earnest curiosity, Lindbergh remained unwilling throughout his life to submit to any spiritual authority beyond himself and ultimately rejected the ordering influence of church, tradition, scripture, or creed. In the end, the man who flew solo across the Atlantic insisted on charting his own spiritual path, drawing on multiple sources in such a way that satisfied his spiritual hunger but left some of his cruelest convictions unchallenged.

Contents:

Ancestors

A Boyhood (and beyond) the Upper Mississippi

"The Winged Gospel"

"The New Christ"

Anne

"A Cruel God of Chance"

The Happiest Years

"The Nazi Theology"

AMerica First

The War

Beyond Flight

Last Years

Of Death and Afterlife.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781467462617

1467462616

Publisher Number:

99988287207

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.