John Williamson Nevin : American theologian /
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| Author / Creator: | Wentz, Richard E. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | viii, 169 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion in America series Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2604051 |
| Summary: | This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the college and theological seminary of the German Reformed Church located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The story is a neglected aspect of American studies. Wentz provides a kind of post-modern perspective on Nevin, presenting him as a distinctively American thinker, rather than as a reactionary romantic. Although influenced by German philosophy, historical studies, and theology, Nevin's thought was a profound response to the American public context of his day. He was, in many respects, a public theologian, judging the prevailing development of American Christianity as a new religion that was fashioning its own disintegration and that of American culture at large. Nevin's reinterpretation of catholicity in the American context opened the way for a radical understanding of religion and of American public life. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 169 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-163) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195082435 |
