Horace Bushnell and the Question of Miracles

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-473
Author(s):  
Robert Bruce Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Standard Interpretation ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Horace Bushnell ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
Theological Debate

Horace Bushnell has never lacked for commentators, and with notable exceptions the general picture of him (whether for praise or vilification) has been that of the “father” of American theological liberalism. This standard interpretation of Bushnell, however, fails to do justice to one of the more interesting aspects of his thought: his discussion in his treatise Nature and the Supernatural of the possibility of modern-day miracles. Although considered scandalous by his contemporaries and a pitiable misunderstanding by later commentators, his arguments, I believe, bear reexamination. In his treatment of the question of modern miracles Bushnell both offered his contribution to a 300-year-long theological debate and set forth his vision of the direction in which American Protestantism must head in order to meet squarely the growing spiritual crisis of nineteenth-century culture.

The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-178
Author(s):  
Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
West Germany ◽  
German History ◽  
Standard Interpretation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Impact

The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany offers readers an elegantly written analysis of German Catholic subculture, or “milieu.” Ruff examines how it once successfully operated in the mid-nineteenth century and then explores why the same strategies failed to win the continued support of young Catholics in the postwar era of the Federal Republic. Ruff modifies the standard interpretation of the 1950s as a static time in German history, examines the impact of consumer culture on the Catholic subculture, and offers his own contribution to the theories of secularization.

Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary

2015 ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Trent Pomplun
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Many

This essay provides an historical account of the simultaneous development of Mariology and Christology in the early modern period. The main Thomist and Scotist arguments regarding the Incarnation and Immaculate Conception are discussed, together with the many “strict” and “mitigated” variants propounded by major theologians of religious orders, including the Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercedarians, and others; and the increasing trend toward the theological position of Duns Scotus is shown. Several of these now-forgotten theologies on the absolute primacy of Christ and Mary integrated the rather scattered Mariological reflections of the medieval world into the various baroque syntheses that shaped much of nineteenth-century theological debate, one result of which was the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854.

THE PROBLEM OF MORAL PROGRESS: THE SLAVERY DEBATES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM IN THE UNITED STATES

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOLLY OSHATZ
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Liberal Protestantism ◽  
Horace Bushnell ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Slavery Debates

The slavery debates in the antebellum United States sparked a turning point in American theology. They forced moderately antislavery Protestants, including William Ellery Channing, Francis Wayland, and Horace Bushnell, to reconcile their contradictory loyalties to the Bible and to antislavery reform. Unable to use the letter of the Bible to make a scriptural case against slavery in itself, the moderates argued that although slavery had been acceptable in biblical times, it had become a sin. Antislavery Protestantism required a theory of moral progress, a deeply unorthodox idea that became fundamental to the development of late nineteenth-century liberal Protestantism. The antislavery argument from moral progress, along with the moral progress represented by abolition, established a progressive conception of revelation that would be further developed by late nineteenth-century liberal theologians, including Newman Smyth, Lyman Abbott, and Theodore Munger.

The Enlarged Freedom of Frederick Law Olmsted

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-538
Author(s):  
Andrew Menard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Public Space ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
City Parks ◽  
Horace Bushnell ◽  
Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted's city parks represent a view of freedom derived from the offsetting influences of an orderly, systematic, public space. The author traces this view to the works of Francis Bacon, John Locke, Archibald Alison, Horace Bushnell, and the liberalism of nineteenth-century New England Whigs.

scholarly journals Sydir Vorobkevych on poetics: theme, idea

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
Tetyana Nykyforuk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
National Poetry ◽  
Historical Past

The purpose of the article. To analyze the scientific literature related to the study of the elements of poetics of poetic works of S. Vorobkevych. To study the author's views on the form of a poetic text. Research methods are predetermined by the purpose and tasks of the work, the object of research and are complex. The hermeneutic method and comparative and comparative historical, biographical method makes it possible to find out the dependence of S. Vorobkevych’s views on poetics on the life basis. Scientific novelty. The realization of this task is also connected with the study of the writer's views on poetics. They may not always be correct, some judgments have undergone some changes chronologically, but their value in understanding the poetics of works is unquestionable. The writer mostly used the term "style", interpreting this category as a set of artistic means that distinguish the work of one author from another. S. Vorobkevych divided literature into poetry, prose and drama. He differentiated poetry into folk (folklore) and literary. He defined a literary work as a structure consisting of content and form. In the content segment, S. Vorobkevych defined a theme and an idea. In his own work, the writer described two themes: the theme of Bukovyna in various versions and the theme of the historical past of Ukraine. The poet defined the idea of a literary work as "pearl", "grain", "fruit". Conclusions. S. Vorobkevych’s arguments about the form of the literary work were important. The results obtained are an important material for expressing our knowledge of the poetics of S. Vorobkevych's poetic works; they are the material for comparison with the similar material on the artistic nature of Y. Fedkovych’s poetic works. Researcher might receive a general picture of the poetics of national poetry works in Bukovynain the second half of the nineteenth century on the basis of revealing common features, taking into account the data of other Ukrainian poets of the region of this period.

The Cambridge Platonists of Old England and the Cambridge Platonists of New England

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Walker Howe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Horace Bushnell ◽  
Rational Thought ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Cambridge Platonists

In 1875 the distinguished Unitarian minister and local historian Henry Wilder Foote preached a eulogy for his late colleague, the Reverend James Walker, philosopher and former president of Harvard University. It was an appropriate occasion to characterize the achievement of the antebellum generation of Harvard Unitarian leaders that Walker represented. “They were much more than mere denominationalists or founders of a sect,” Foote declared. “The whole tone of their teaching was profoundly positive in its moral and religious quality. Trained at our American Cambridge, they were really the legitimate heirs of that noble group of men nurtured at the Cambridge of England–the Latitude Men, as they were called–who blended culture and piety and rational thought in their teaching.” Building upon Foote's perceptive characterization, this article will explore the significance of the seventeenth-century Cambridge Platonists for the Harvard Unitarians of the mid-nineteenth century. In so doing it may illuminate other forms of New England religious thought that also drew upon Platonic or Neoplatonic sources, including Edwardseanism, Hopkinsianism, and the progressive orthodoxy of Horace Bushnell. In particular, I hope to shed light on the relationship between Unitarianism and Transcendentalism.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
The Individual

Dissenters experienced considerable change during the eighteenth century. The political and cultural environment in which they lived was in flux. Before 1689, public declarations of Dissenting faith were risky. By the early nineteenth century, Dissenters were increasingly influential and secure. Several different processes helped to make these changes possible. One was the revival of ‘vital religion’, associated with a period of awakening. Awakening spread far and wide within European and American Protestantism but Dissenters were strongly affected by it. The growth of ideas of enlightenment encouraged both an emphasis on personal faith and the ability of the individual to make choices about faith for him/herself and also helped increase the resources able to express faith through burgeoning print culture.

The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
William Gladstone ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dining Room

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles, editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century, as a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, the founding members elected talented men from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, scientists, literary figures, and politicians. There were liberals and conservatives, empiricists and intuitionists, and Protestants, Catholics, and unbelievers. It included in its 62 members the prominent intellectual superstars of the period, such as T. H. Huxley; William Gladstone; Walter Bagehot; Henry Edward Manning; John Ruskin; and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The members of the Society discussed the reality of miracles, the status of evolution, and the nature of ethics. This collection moves beyond Alan Willard Brown’s 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel. It casts light on many of the colourful figures that joined the Society and also examines, with fresh eyes, the major concepts that informed the papers presented at Society meetings. By discussing groups, important individuals, and underlying concepts, the chapters contribute to a rich, new picture of Victorian intellectual life during the 1870s, a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress.

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