Evangelical disenchantment
Subtitle: nine portraits of faith and doubt
By: David Hempton.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780300140675
Subjects: Religious biography; Spiritual biography; Evangelicalism
Description: David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine creative artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evangelicalism and disenchantment; title: Evangelicalism and morality; title: Evangelicalism and mission; title: Evangelicalism and reform; title: Evangelicalism and feminism; title: Evangelicalism and secularization; title: Evangelicalism and childhood; title: Evangelicalism and race; title: Enchantment and disenchantment.