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Evangelicalism : the coming generation

Author: James Davison Hunter
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Davison Hunter
ISBN: 0226360822 9780226360829 0226360830 9780226360836
OCLC Number: 13795366
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xi, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Part I: Evangelicalism as a global phenomenon ; Evangelicalism as an American phenomenon ; The coming generation of American evangelicals ; Method and scope --
Part II: Theology: the shifting meaning of faith ; The problem of Biblical inerrancy ; The problem of salvation ; The problem of a social gospel ; The de-ghettoization of evangelical theology ; Work, morality, and the self: asceticism revised ; Vocational asceticism ; Moral asceticism ; The self examined ; A legacy revised ; Family: toward androgyny ; The traditional family: mythic qualities ; An excursus: the "traditional family"-reflections on social history ; The traditional family reconsidered ; Toward androgyny ; The evangelical family besieged ; Politics: civility extolled ; Three waves of evangelical political activism ; The politics of the coming generation ; Evangelicals and the ethic of political civility --
Part III: Modernity and the reconstruction of tradition ; The reconstruction of tradition ; The role of education ; The role of elites ; Is orthodoxy possible? ; Evangelicalism in the modern world order ; The decline of cultural hegemony ; Transition in the world order ; "Crisis" in the world order ; Evangelicalism in America's third century ; Growth, decline, division ; The loss of binding address --
Epilogue: Orthodoxy in the modern world order: in search of a paradigm.
Other Titles: Evangelicalism :
Responsibility: James Davison Hunter.
Local System Bib Number:
6040
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