All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism

Witten, Marsha

ISBN 10: 0691032807 / ISBN 13: 9780691032801

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1993

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0691032807
• ISBN-13: 9780691032801
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In recent years mail deliveries have included a new kind of invitation to Protestant Christianity: slick brochures enumerating the social and psychological advantages of church attendance--with no mention whatsoever of spiritual striving, suffering, or faith in God. Does this kind of secularity prevail not only in direct-mail Christianity but also in mainline Protestant churches? Finding the sermon to be the centerpiece of Protestant worship, Marsha Witten looks for the answer to this question in an in-depth analysis of preaching on an important New Testament text: the Parable of the Prodigal Son.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marsha G. Witten is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College.