“My Own Salvation”: The Christian Century and Psychology's Secularizing of American Protestantism

2003 ◽  
pp. 269-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith G. Meador
Keyword(s):  
American Protestantism ◽  
Christian Century

The Battery and the Windmill: Two Models of Protestant Devotionalism in Early-Twentieth-Century America

1996 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ostrander
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Know How ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
Daily Prayer ◽  
Christian Century ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Twentieth Century America

In 1912, Andrew Murray, an influential spokesperson for the Keswick theology prevalent in American fundamentalism, decried the sorry state of spirituality among modern Christians. How many there are, he exclaimed, who “say that they have no time and that the heart desire for prayer is lacking; they do not know how to spend half an hour with God! … Day after day, month after month passes, and there is no time to spend one hour with God.” Closing his jeremiad, Murray exclaimed, “How many there are who take only five minutes for prayer!” A few years later, Herbert Willett and Charles Clayton Morrison, editors of The Christian Century, the voice of the emerging liberal movement in American Protestantism, published a daily devotional guide entitled The Daily Altar. Its purpose was to provide Christians with “a few moments of quiet and reflection” in the midst of “short and crowded days” in order to maintain a daily prayer life. To be precise, devotions in The Daily Altar took one and a half minutes to complete.

Empire, Mission, Ecumenism, and Human Rights: “Religious Liberty” in Egypt, 1919–1956

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
Informal Empire ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Egyptian Government

Historians identify many connections between human rights and religion, including the influence of religious organizations on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Protestant ecumenical movement and American Protestantism played important roles in this regard. Historical analysis has so far taken insufficient account of another contemporaneous phenomenon important in terms both of religion and of rights—the British Empire. Its authorities typically offered a “fair field” to Christian missionaries irrespective of their nationality or denomination. They might also offer protection to religious minorities. In Egypt the situation was complicated. An Islamic country and a vital part of Britain's “informal” empire in the Middle East, Egypt was also an important area of missionary activity. To Egyptian government and British imperial representatives alike missionaries asserted their right and that of Christian converts to “religious liberty.” Focusing in part on Anglican mission in Egypt, this article examines the complex interplay of empire and Anglo-American ecumenism in missionary assertion of religious freedom. It also shows how imperialism and debates about “religious liberty” in Egypt and the Middle East influenced both “universal” and Egyptian national ideas about freedom of religion up to 1956.

scholarly journals The Problem of Worship in American Protestantism

1924 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 632-642
Author(s):  
T. L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
American Protestantism

Christianity and Literature: Covertly Public, Overtly Private

1998 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-283
Author(s):  
Martin E. Marty
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Christian Century

This article is based upon an address to the Conference on Christianity and Literature at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Toronto on 29 December 1997. The invitation asked me to comment on the public/private distinction that I make as Director of the Public Religion Project and to accent the “cultural context,” which fits my History of Culture faculty assignment and three decades of writing Context, a newsletter relating religion to culture. I was to inform it theologically, which a divinity professor is supposed to be able to do, and to show some curiosity about the literary theme, as my decades-long stint as literary editor at The Christian Century should poise me to do. Under it all my limiting job description matches a badge provided me at a conference in Tübingen, where the hosts handed out identifications marked “Theologian of History,” “Theological Historian,” and “Historical Theologian.” Mine read simply, “Historical Historian.”—MEM

The Christian Reconstruction Movement in U.S. Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Ingersoll
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Biblical Worldview ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Biblical Law ◽  
American Conservatism ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
Christian Reconstruction

For more than half a century, Rousas John Rushdoony and his followers have articulated and disseminated what they understand to be a biblical worldview, based in aspects of traditional reformed theology and both the Old and New Testaments. This worldview seeks to apply biblical law to every aspect of life and to transform every aspect of culture to establish the Kingdom of God. While some components of their vision are so extreme that Christian Reconstructionists are often dismissed as an irrelevant fringe group, other aspects of their vision have taken root in conservative American Protestantism, especially in the Christian homeschool movement, and therefor influenced American conservatism more broadly. This essay outlines that worldview and points to some of those areas of influence.

The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism

1998 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 643
Author(s):  
Peter J. Gomes ◽  
Thomas E. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
American Protestantism ◽  
Character Of God
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