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 I [...]
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Harry Stout on Whitefield and Evangelicalism
Posted in evangelicalism, history, tagged american history, church history, george whitefield, harry stout, marketplace, revival on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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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