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Harry Stout on Whitefield and Evangelicalism

Posted in evangelicalism, history, tagged , , , , , on November 24, 2007 | No Comments »

In Church in the Age Reason, one of my three classes from Dr. Dan “the Multnomah history division” Scalberg this semester, we’re reading Harry Stout’s fantastic biography The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Who knows why people get as pissed about things as they do, but as far as [...]

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Thoughts On the Development of the Modern American Religious Self

Posted in america, emerson, evangelicalism on March 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »

At the risk of glaring selectivity, I must nevertheless point out three predominant features of the American mythos: 1) Liberty, by which we mean self-determination, freedom from the external demands of others; 2) Prosperity, by which we mean the possession of expendable wealth; and 3) Security, by which we mean the extermination of all threats [...]

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