Author | : J. D. Bowers |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0271045817 |
Author | : J. D. Bowers |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0271045817 |
Author | : Jean R. Soderlund |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780934223805 |
American historians have emphasized major cities as cultural and economic centers. This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life beyond those cities. The Lehigh Valley is a place where integral events occurred, but is also an example of regional growth outside large cities. Its unique location, close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coal, and steel, yet distant enough to develop its own cultural life, offers a regional model persisting for more than two centuries heretofore unexplored in American historical scholarship. This persistence of cultural and economic patterns, including the capacity to change, makes Lehigh Valley history particularly intriguing.
Author | : Steven Johnson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594488528 |
Bestselling author Johnson recounts the story of Joseph Priestley--scientist and theologian, protege of Benjamin Franklin--an 18th-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the U.S.
Author | : Lydia Willsky-Ciollo |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2015-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739188933 |
American Unitarians were not onlookers to the drama of Protestantism in the nineteenth century, but active participants in its central conundrum: biblical authority. Unitarians sought what other Protestants sought, which was to establish the Bible as the primary authority, only to find that the task was not so simple as they had hoped. This book revisits the story of nineteenth century American Unitarianism, proposing that Unitarianism was founded and shaped by the twin hopes of maintaining biblical authority and committing to total free inquiry. This story fits into the larger narrative of Protestantism, which, this book argues, has been defined by a deep devotion to the singular authority of the Bible (sola scriptura) and, conversely, a troubling ambivalence as to how such authority should function. How, in other words, can a book serve as a source of authority? This work traces the greater narrative of biblical authority in Protestantism through the story of four main Unitarian figures: William Ellery Channing, Andrews Norton, Theodore Parker, and Frederic Henry Hedge. All four individuals played a central role, at different times, in shaping Unitarianism, and in determining how exactly religious authority functioned in their nascent denomination. Besides these central figures, the book goes both backward, examining the evolution of biblical authority from the late medieval period in Europe to the early nineteenth century in America, and forward, exploring the period of Unitarian experimentation of religious authority in the late nineteenth century. The book also brings the book firmly into the present, exploring how questions about the Bible and religious authority are being answered today by contemporary Unitarian Universalists. Overall, this book aims to bring the American Unitarians firmly back into the historical and historiographical conversation, not as outliers, but as religious people deeply committed to solving the Protestant dilemma of religious authority.
Author | : Andrea Greenwood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139504533 |
How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the Unitarianism of New England is indigenous and the point from which the religion spread. Relationships between Polish radicals and the English Dissenters existed and the English radicals profoundly influenced the Unitarianism of the nascent United States. Greenwood and Harris also explore the US identity as Unitarian Universalist since a 1961 merger and its current relationship to international congregations, particularly in the context of twentieth-century expansion into Asia.
Author | : John R. Shook |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1249 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441167315 |
The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
Author | : John A. Buehrens |
Publisher | : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1558966137 |
Author | : John Allen Macaulay |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081735865X |
Macaulay challenges the prevailing belief that religion in the south developed solely through "revivalistic emotion" and not by religious rationalism.