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New World metaphysics : readings on the religious meaning of the American experience / edited by Giles Gunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious thought--United States.
- Religious thought.
- Religious thought--Modern period, 1500-.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (489 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.
- Summary:
- From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and images to express the meaning of their encounter with America. Here, in more than one hundred selections, is the record of their quest for a New World metaphysics -- a spiritual vision or ultimate idea of order expressive of the American experience.
- Contents:
- Contents; I: PRESENTIMENTS (1492-1607); II: PREPARATIONS (1607-1740); III: LOOMINGS( 1740-1830); IV: REALIZATIONS (1830-1915); V: REJECTIONS AND REVISIONS (1915-1950); VI: RECOVERIES (1950-1980)
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-76214-4
- 0-19-536534-8
- OCLC:
- 609831543
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