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John Williamson Nevin : American theologian

Author: Richard E Wentz
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian, Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the college and theological seminary of the German Reformed Church located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The story is a neglected  Read more...
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Named Person: John Williamson Nevin; John W Nevin; John Williamson Nevin
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard E Wentz
ISBN: 0195082435 9780195082432
OCLC Number: 34411600
Description: viii, 169 p. ; 25 cm.
Series Title: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility: Richard E. Wentz.
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This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian, Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the college and theological seminary of the German Reformed Church located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The story is a neglected aspect of American studies. Wentz provides a kind of post-modern perspective on Nevin, presenting him as a distinctively American thinker, rather than as a reactionary romantic. Although influenced by German philosophy, historical studies, and theology , Nevin's thought was a profound response to the American public context of his day. He was, in many respects, a public theologian, judging the prevailing development of American Christianity as a new religion that was fashioning its own disintegration and that of American culture at large. Nevin's reinterpretation of catholicity in the American context opened the way for a radical understanding of religion and of American public life.

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