The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past - Gutacker, Paul J. (Temporary Full-Time Lecturer, Temporary Full-Time Lecturer, Baylor University) - Bücher - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780197639153 - 6. April 2023
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The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past

Gutacker, Paul J. (Temporary Full-Time Lecturer, Temporary Full-Time Lecturer, Baylor University)

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The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past

Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bible alone." The Old Faith in a New Nation challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when they appeared to be most scornful toward tradition, most optimistic and forward-looking, and most confident in their grasp of the Bible, evangelicals found themselvesreturning, time and again, to Christian history. They studied religious historiography, reinterpreted the history of the church, and argued over its implications for the present.

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, American Protestants were deeply interested in the meaning of the Christian past. Paul J. Gutacker draws from hundreds of print sources-sermons, books, speeches, legal arguments, political petitions, and more-to show how ordinary educated Americans remembered and used Christian history.

While claiming to rely on the Bible alone, antebellum Protestants frequently turned to the Christian past on questions of import: how should the government relate to religion? Could Catholic immigrants become true Americans? What opportunities and rights should be available to women? ToAfrican Americans? Protestants across denominations answered these questions not only with the Bible but also with history. By recovering the ways in which American evangelicals remembered and used Christian history, The Old Faith in a New Nation shows how religious memory shaped the nation andinterrogates the meaning of "biblicism."


264 pages

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 6. April 2023
ISBN13 9780197639153
Verlag Oxford University Press Inc
Seitenanzahl 264
Maße 236 × 154 × 20 mm   ·   450 g