Religion and twentieth-century American intellectual life

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"This volume provokes reexamination both of the naturalist tradition in America, and of religious thought. The essays, taken together, break new ground in the study of religion and science in America." John Corrigan
Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life addresses the place of religious thought and values in America's "high" culture: those educated cultural ehtes devoted to science, scholarship, and intellectual life generally. This volume comprises a set of original essays written by leading authorities in the fields of intellectual history, the history of religion, and theology.
Concerned primarily with the relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university-dominated intellectual environment of the modern period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged from... Tovább

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"This volume provokes reexamination both of the naturalist tradition in America, and of religious thought. The essays, taken together, break new ground in the study of religion and science in America." John Corrigan
Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life addresses the place of religious thought and values in America's "high" culture: those educated cultural ehtes devoted to science, scholarship, and intellectual life generally. This volume comprises a set of original essays written by leading authorities in the fields of intellectual history, the history of religion, and theology.
Concerned primarily with the relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university-dominated intellectual environment of the modern period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged from the challenges to religious beUef posed by nineteenth-century science and scholarship - the traditionalist, the naturalist, and the modernist responses - the volume is organized to bring out the continuing interplay of reciprocal influences among them. The contributors show that a dialectic between naturalistic and religious points of view has contributed significantly to the character and style of modem American thought.
The book's editor, Michael J. Lacey, is a historian and Chairman of the Division of United States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Contributors include Richard Wightman Fox, Van A. Harvey, David A. Hollinger, William McGuire King, Bruce Kuklick, George M. Marsden, Henry F. May, Murray G. Murphey, and David Tracy Vissza