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CALVINISM AND CULTURE IN AMERICA, 1870-1915- [e-book]
CALVINISM AND CULTURE IN AMERICA, 1870-1915- [e-book]
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20160223102330.5
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230-22
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Ph.D.
Author  
SMITH, GARY SCOTT.
Title/Author  
CALVINISM AND CULTURE IN AMERICA, 1870-1915 - [e-book]
Publish Info  
Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1981
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444 p
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - The Johns Hopkins University, 1981.
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요약While students of American intellectual and cultural history have perceptively described how Calvinism helped shape this nation's government and society in the colonial and revolutionary periods, they have largely ignored Reformed orthodoxy's continuing vitality in the years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. Historians generally assume that after 1800 the currents of modernity and the popular Arminian free-will doctrines substantially eroded Calvinism. They believe that orthodoxy had become so decadent by 1870 that its advocates were poorly equipped to deal with the new intellectual and social ideas which became prominent during the Gilded Age. True, new scientific and cultural views did seriously challenge Reformed beliefs after the Civil War. Yet Calvinism possessed sufficient strength and flexibility to enable its proponents to provide an alternative understanding of the world and life for some Americans. And Reformed Christians joined other theists in modifying the course of these novel trends.
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요약Between the Presidencies of Lincoln and Wilson, Calvinists who were significantly represented among Baptists, Congregationalists and Episcopalians as well as among the various Presbyterian denominations, attempted to stem secularizing trends in American culture. They warned that recent economic and social upheavals and naturalistic ideologies advanced by Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Darwin, Spencer, Comte and others threatened to shift American corporate life from its biblical foundation to a secular one. They argued that this clash over social ideals stemmed from differing views of God, humanity, nature and society. With other theists, Calvinists asserted that God was supreme over all things and that human beings were sinful yet had tremendous value because they were created in the image of a loving and good God. They also declared that God sustained nature and they urged believers to work to pattern culture after scriptural ideals. Consequently, Reformed Christians denounced alternative ideologies which held that God was non-existent, unknowable or irrelevant, that an individual's dignity was based solely upon his rational capabilities, that nature was autonomous and impersonal and that there were no divine guidelines for structuring social life.
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요약The dissertation analyzes the extent and strength of belief in Reformed orthodoxy in America during the years from 1870 to 1915 and evaluates attacks upon that system of doctrine by skeptics, proponents of the New Theology and Arminians and by Northern Presbyterians who wanted to revise radically the Westminster Confession of Faith. The study then examines Calvinism and Secularism as competing visions of life and culture and describes the interlocking debates between advocates of the two ideologies in the areas of politics, education, science, morality, business and economics, social institutions and patterns and the observance of the Sabbath.
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American history
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The Johns Hopkins University.
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