Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) - Softcover

Lacey, Michael James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521407753 ISBN 13: 9780521407755

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged from the challenges to religious belief posed by nineteenth-century science and scholarship - the traditionalist, the naturalist, and the modernist responses - the volume is organized to bring out the continuing interplay of reciprocal influences among them. The contributors show that a dialectic between naturalistic and religious points of view has contributed significantly to the character and style of modern American thought.

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Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life

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Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521407753
• ISBN 13: 9780521407755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226