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The life of prayer in a world of science : Protestants, prayer, and American culture, 1870-1930 /

By the end of the 19th century, many in the emerging middle-class culture saw themselves as too busy to practice the rigorous devotions of their ancestors. In this book, Rick Ostrander explores the attempts of American Protestants to articulate a convincing and satisfying ethic of prayer in changing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ostrander, Richard, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Colección:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A final act of purification: the modern scientific attack on prayer
  • Proving the living God: answered prayer as a modern evangelical apologetic
  • The spiritual unrest: the cultural context of liberal Protestant devotionalism
  • Divine immanence: the ideological context of liberal Protestant devotionalism
  • A sane mysticism: the Christocentric liberal ethic of prayer
  • The new belief in prayer: healing and intercession in liberal Protestantism
  • The religion a mature mind: liberal devotional teachings in the early twentieth century
  • Modernism and prayer in the twenties.