Dr. Nevin's Theology
Author | : John Williamson Nevin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Mercersburg theology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Williamson Nevin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Mercersburg theology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Hastings Nichols |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725217988 |
This is a study of religious thought and life in America in the generation before the Civil War. It focuses on Nevin and Schaff, who pioneered in America the theological reinterpretations stimulated by German idealism in philosophy and the new theories of historical development. They were also spokesmen of the romantic interest in Christian traditions, community, and sacraments and in this interest opposed the antihistorical individualism predominant in American religion. Charles Hodge, Orestes Brownson, Horace Bushnell, R. J. Wilberforce, and the American Lutherans all debated with them. Nevin and Schaff were the chief nineteenth-century American prophets of the contemporary ecumenical movement.
Author | : John I. Swander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Mercersburg theology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Darryl G. Hart |
Publisher | : P & R Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This biography, written by a provocative, prolific historian, gives readers insights into Nevin's critique of the revivalist tradition and shows how it applies today. Hart recovers a nearly forgotten nineteenth-century theologian and demonstrates his ongoing relevance. This book is extensively documented, and includes a substantial bibliographical essay and an index. Nevin (1803-1886) taught at Mercersburg Seminary when he wrote The Anxious Bench (1843) and The Mystical Presence (1846), volumes dealing with revivalism and the Lord's Supper, respectively. The last ten years have seen a revival of interest in this theologian, who was a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and who substituted for Hodge during his two-year study-leave in Europe.
Author | : James Hastings Nichols |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2004-01-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1556353162 |
The Mercersburg theology was a protest against many of the ÒPuritan tendencies dominant in American religion in the mid-nineteenth century. Its spokesmen emphasized the catholic heritage in Protestantism and fostered the ecumenical hope of a reunion of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. They presented a high church sacramental conception, as opposed to the predominant revivalistic, individualistic, and sectarian habit of mind. The movement was generally disapproved as Romanizing and its popular influence was accordingly minimal. The two creative writers were John Williamson Nevin, the theologian, and Philip Schaff, the historian and liturgical scholar, who taught together at the college and seminary of the German Reformed Church at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Their books, tracts, and periodical articles had only a limited circulation and are no longer generally accessible, having been little regarded in the intervening years. The general stance of the Mercersburg men was parallel to that of the high church Lutherans of Germany and the Tractarians in the Church of England. The movement was the chief American counterpart to these developments, since the American Episcopalian disciples of the Tractarians could scarcely be compared to Nevin and Schaff in theological stature. The Americans were more philosophically oriented than the Anglo-Catholics, utilizing the concepts of Schelling and Hegel to interpret the classical doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation and to define the relation of private judgment to Church tradition. They were also mediators to America of much of the mid-nineteenth-century German theological scholarship. The Americans were also more conscious than the Tractarians of the implications for theology of the new historical consciousness prevalent in Germany. Schaff set forth the idea of the historical development in the same year as Newman's famous essay on the subject. But while the conception undercut the Tractarian position for Newman, the Mercersburg theology was built upon a parallel view. The evangelical catholicism of Mercersburg was most widely influential through the liturgy produced under Schaff's leadership, which has maintained a limited local continuity to this day.
Author | : B. Schneck |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368843508 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author | : Charles Yrigoyen Jr. |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725241552 |
The place of the Mercersburg Theology in American religious history has been widely recognized.... It is usually viewed as one of the unique movements in 19th century American Protestantism, principally because it challenged many of the prevailing theological ideas and practices of the time. Two surveys of American religious history have described it as a "theologically and liturgically creative high church movement" (Robert T. Handy) and as the "most creative manifestation of the Catholic tendency" (Sydney E. Ahlstrom) among 19th century American Protestants.
Author | : Annette G. Aubert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199915326 |
This book explores the influences of German theology on Emanuel Gerhart and Charles Hodge, two Reformed theologians who addressed questions concerning method and atonement theology in light of modernism and new scientific theories.