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The life of prayer in a world of science : protestants, prayer and American culture, 1870-1930
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By the end of the 19th century, the ascendance of science had made it difficult to believe in a God who intervened. American evangelicals chose to counterattack in response to the assault on petiti...
By the end of the 19th century, the ascendance of science had made it difficult to believe in a God who intervened. American evangelicals chose to counterattack in response to the assault on petitionary prayer by naturalistic scientists.
Details
- Creator
- Rick Ostrander
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780190285753, 0190285753, 9780197739952, 0197739954, 9781280473500, 1280473509, 9780198031147, 0198031149, 9781423760634, 1423760638, 0195136101
- OCLC
- ocn476025344, ocn935262387, on1406783153
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-225) and index.
- English
- Contents; Introduction; ONE: A Final Act of Purification: The Modern Scientific Attack on Prayer; TWO: Proving the Living God: Answered Prayer as a Modern Evangelical Apologetic; THREE: The Spiritual Unrest: The Cultural Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FOUR: Divine Immanence: The Ideological Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FIVE: A Sane Mysticism: The Christocentric Liberal Ethic of Prayer; SIX: The New Belief in Prayer: Healing and Intercession in Liberal Protestantism; SEVEN: The Religion of a Mature Mind: Liberal Devotional Teachings in the Early Twentieth Century; EIGHT: Modernism and Prayer in the Twenties; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index