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Original Sin and Everyday Protestants : The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety /

Finstuen deals with the reception of original sin by the people in the pews. In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practised an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. F...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finstuen, Andrew S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Protestantism in an age of anxiety : the captive and theological revivals of midcentury
  • A curious trinity : the prophet, the evangelist, and the theologian
  • Original sin : the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, America's prophet-pastor
  • Billy Graham, America's evangelist
  • Paul Tillich, seelsorger in America.