Holding On to the Faith

Confessional Traditions and American Christianity
Herausgeber: Sweeney, Douglas A.; Hambrick-Stowe, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Traditional ways of living the Christian faith-shaped and guided by confessional norms-exhibit remarkable staying power in American religious life. Holding On to the Faith addresses issues related to the persistence of confessional forms of Christianity in the face of utilitarian, democratic, evangelical American popular religious culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841326
• ISBN-10: 0761841326
• Artikelnr.: 25468173

Autorenporträt

Edited by Douglas A. Sweeney and Charles Hambrick-Stowe - Contributions by James D. Bratt; Peter R. D'Agostino; Kathryn Greene-McCreight; James C. Juhnke; Frances Kostarelos; Susan Wilds McArver; James H. Moorhead; Robert Bruce Mullin; Christopher Shannon

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Confessional Traditions in America Chapter 2
"Passing Through Many a Hard School and Test": Confessions, Piety, Liberty
and the Lutheran Experiences in the United States Chapter 3 Contesting the
Faith: The Internal Struggle of American Lutheranism Chapter 4 Presbyterian
Confessional Identity and its Dilemmas Chapter 5 Eternally True, Variably
Useful: How Confessions Worked in Some American Reformed Churches Chapter 6
After Establishment, What? The Paradox of the History of the Episcopal
Church in America Chapter 7 Who's Got the Spirit in the Episcopal Church? A
Case Study of the "Connecticut Six" Chapter 8 Mennonites and Democracy:
Shaped by War and Rumors of War Chapter 9 Rome in America: Transnational
Allegiances and Adjustments Chapter 10 Tammany Catholicism: The
Semi-Established Church in the Immigrant City Chapter 11 The Eastern
Orthodox Christian Church in North America: Continuity and Change in the
Twenty-First Century Chapter 12 Conclusion: Holding Onto the Faith? The
Complexity of American Confessionalism