John Williamson Nevin

Nevin, John Williamson - 1803–86, American theologian and educator, b. near Strasburg, Pa., grad. Union College, 1821, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1826. He was professor of biblical literature (1830–40) in Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), and from 1840 he taught theology at the German Reformed Church Seminary, Mercersburg, Pa. He served Read More...

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John Williamson Nevin: American Theologian
by Richard E. Wentz. 176 pgs.

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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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Preface

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Introduction

One: The Likeness Preserved: the Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin

Two What is Systematic Theology?

Three the Public Character of Theology

Four a Radical and Realized Catholicity

Five Toward a Theology of History

Six "A Theatre for the World": Nationalism and the American Republic

Seven Beyond Sectarian Missions

Eight a Transcript of Mystical Presence: Liturgy and the American Cultus

Conclusion

Notes

Index
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The Shaping of American Religion, Vol. 1 ("John Williamson Nevin and the Mercersburg Movement" begins on p. 267)
by James Ward Smith, A. Leland Jamison. 514 pgs.

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The Shaping Of American Religion

Contents. Volume I

Introduction

The Protestant Movement And Democracy in the United States

Catholicism in the United States

Judaism in the United States

Religions on the Christian Perimeter A. Leland Jamison

Theology in America: A Historical Survey

From the Covenant to the Revival

Religion and Modernity, 1865-1914

Religion and Science In American Philosophy

Tradition and Experience In American Theology

Index
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The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860 (Discussion of John Williamson Nevin begins on p. 175)
by E. Brooks Holifield. 264 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter One: The Town Setting

Chapter Two: The Gentlemen Preachers

Chapter Three: The Vanishing Liberals

Chapter Four: The Evidence for Faith

Chapter Five: Scottish Philosophy and Southern Theology

Chapter Six: The Moralists

Chapter Seven: Seals of the Covenant

Chapter Eight: A Rational World: Theodicy

Index of Persons

Index of Subjects
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Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians ("Nevin, John Williamson" begins on p. 377)
by Patrick W. Carey, Joseph T. Lienhard. 589 pgs.

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The last 20 centuries of Christian history have witnessed the emergence of numerous theological traditions. This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 450 Christian theologians. Included are entries for those individuals whose work was primarily in systematic and spiritual theology, or who were church historians chiefly concerned with theological matters. Whenever possible, each entry provides basic biographical information, a brief account of the theologian's education and career, and a summary of the person's most important contributions to theology. The entries end with bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, while the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Biographies

Selected Bibliography

Index

Contributors
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Critical Issues in American Religious History: A Reader ("The Anxious Bench, 1844" begins on p. 160)
by Robert R. Mathisen. 659 pgs.

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On many occasions Americans as a religious people have experienced tension and indecision as they have wrestled with a variety of critical issues crossing their paths. How to implement their religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society is recorded in the religious language of the people as they have sought to articulate their identity and destiny.
Critical Issues in American Religious History identifies fifteen key, chronologically arranged issues that have prompted considerable debate and discussion over the years. The distinctive element of this work is the singular thematic thread which runs from cover to cover: America's religious experience reflects four interrelated dimensions of religious tension. The carefully selected primary and secondary materials speak to the tension between the secular and sacred, beliefs and behaviors, inclusion and exclusion, and conflict and consensus. Each chapter theme is woven around a particular critical issue pertaining to one or more of these four tensions.
Ideally suited for classroom use, Mathisen's work enlarges the reader's critical thinking through an examination of primary and secondary sources of America's religious past. Special features in each chapter include:
-- Introductory commentary
-- Primary and secondary source readings
-- Questions for reflection and discussion
-- Suggested readings for further study

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Critical Issues in American Religious History

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Preface

Chapter 1: Interpreting Religion in America

Endnotes

Additional Readings

Chapter 2: Religion in Early America

Additional Readings

Chapter 3: The Era of the Great Awakening

Additional Readings

Chapter 4: Religious America in the American Revolution

Additional Readings

Chapter 5: American Religion in the Antebellum Frontier West

Additional Readings

Chapter 6: American Religion in the Antebellum Frontier West

Additional Readings

Chapter 7: Slavery and American Religion

Additional Readings

Chapter 8: Religion and America's Civil War

Additional Readings

Chapter 9: Religion & Science in Confrontation

Additional Readings

Chapter 10: Religion in Industrializing America

Additional Readings

Chapter 11: Religion and American Empire Building

Additional Readings

Chapter 12: Fundamentalism Vs. Modernism

Additional Readings

Chapter 13: American Religious Ferment During the Depression Era

Additional Readings

Chapter 14: American Religion from World War II to Vietnam

Additional Readings

Chapter 15: Religion and the Civil Rights Movement

Additional Readings

Chapter 16: Religion and the Search for American Stability

Additional Readings

Additional Resources

Internet Sites
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The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America (Discussion of John Williamson Nevin begins on p. 169)
by Paul K. Conkin. 330 pgs.

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Preface

INTRODUCTION Pre-Reformation Christianity in the West

Chapter 1 Reformed Christianity in Britain and Colonial America

Chapter 2 Methodist Origins

Chapter 3 Theological Foundations

Chapter 4 the Age of Evangelical Hegemony

Chapter 5 Outside the Evangelical Consensus

Chapter 6 Reformed Worship

Chapter 7 Reformed Theology at Maturity: Taylor, Hodge, and Bushnell

Chapter 8 Storm Clouds on the Evangelical Horizon

Afterword

Notes

Index
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Dictionary of Heresy Trials in American Christianity (Discussion of John Williamson Nevin begins on p. 329)
by George H. Shriver. 514 pgs.

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The first of its kind, this volume presents fifty formal and informal trials of individuals and institutions that have been labeled as heretical. These are challenging stories of ministers, professors, and laypersons who literally risked their careers and lives for their understanding of religious truths. From Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in the colonial period to the latest 1990s casualties in the Southern Baptist Convention, trials from all major periods in American History and from all the major denominations are presented by leading scholars in the study of religious history. Of interest to scholars, students, and the general religious public.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Trials and Denominations

Preface

Introduction

Andover Theological Seminary (1886-1892)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Albert Barnes (1798-1870)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edward Beecher (1803-1895)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lyman Beecher (1775-1863)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Charles Augustus Briggs (1841-1913)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robert C. Briggs (1915-- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fawn Mckay Brodie (1915-1981)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Horace Bushnell (1802-1876)

SELECTED BIBBLIOGRAHY

Theodore R. Clark (1912- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Concordia Theological Seminary (1969-1974)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Algemon Sidney Crapsey (1847-1927)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Charles E. Curran (1934- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mary Dyer (c. 1615-1660)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ralph H. Elliott (1925- )

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

George Burman Foster (1858-1918)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

William S. Godbe (1833-1902) and Elias Lacy Thomas Harrison (1830-1900)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Luther A. Gotwald (1833-1900)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Francis Hodur (1866-1953)

Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sonia Johnson (1936-- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Walter Wynn Kenyon (1948--)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lane Theological Seminary (1834)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Louisville Thirteen (1958)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Molly Marshall (1949- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

William Clement Mccune (1821-1894)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arthur Cushman Mcgiffert (1861-1933)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mercer Heresy Trial (1939)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hincldey Gilbert Thomas Mitchell (1846-1920)

Dale Moody (1915-1992)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

James A. Pike (1913-1969)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Walter Righter (1923-)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Philip Schaff (1819-1893)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Paul D. Simmons (1936-- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Henry Preserved Smith (1847-1927)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Egbert Coffin Smyth (1829-1904)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Newman Smyth (1843-1925)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (1985-1994)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frank Stagg (1911-)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

James J. Strang (1813-1856)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Julian M. Sturtevant (1805-1886)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

David Swing (1830-1894)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

John H. Tietjen (1928- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Crawford Howell Toy (1836-1919)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

William Heth Whitsitt (1841-1911)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAHY

Roger Williams (c. 1603-1684)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alexander Winchell (1824-1891)

BIBLIOGPRAPHY

The Witchcraft Trials in Salem (1692)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

James Woodrow (1828-1907)

BIBLIOGRAHY

Unscientific Postscript

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appendix: Identification of Trials by Denominational Family

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors
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Antirevivalism in Antebellum America: A Collection of Religious Voices (Chap. 10 "Not the Anxious Bench but the Communion Rail")
by James D. Bratt. 280 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Camp-Meeting Craziness Observer [George Elley], "Methodistic Enthusiasm" (1845) - 4

2: The Arrogance of Revival Theology

3: A Methodist against "Extravagance"

Wesleyan Methodist [John Fanning Watson], Methodist Error (1819) -

4: Attacking Pious Ignorance

Stephen Olin, "Duties of the Church-Tracts, Sunday Schools" (1835) -

La Roy Sunderland, "Essay on a Theological Education" (1834) -

5: The Terrors of Calvinist Tyranny

Ephraim Perkins, a "Bunker Hill" Contest, A.D. 1826 (1826) -

6: The Dangers of Anti-Calvinist Tyranny

Articles of Faith of the Kehukee Association (1777) -

Address to the Particular Baptist Churches of the 'Old School' in the United States (1832) -

7: Good Taste and Tolerance

[Orville Dewey], Letters of an English Traveler (1828) -

8: A Plea for Pastoral Prerogative

Calvin Colton, Thoughts on the Religious State of the Country (1836) -

9: The "Swarming Pests" of Methodism

Fr[Iedrich C D ] Wyneken, the Distress of the German Lutherans in North America (1843) -

10: Not the Anxious Bench but the Communion Rail

John Williamson Nevin, the Anxious Bench (1843) and the Mystical Presence (1846) -

11: In Praise of Family Nurture

12: Revivals in Need of Perfection

13: From Ecstasy to Scripture

14: Dignified, Biblical Religion

Daniel Alexander Payne on Education and Worship (1859 and 1888) -

15: From Revival to Romance

Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Revival of Religion" (1869) -

16: From Revival to New Revelation

Joseph Smith, "History, 1838" -

17: From the New Heart to the End of the Age

Ellen G White, Life Sketches (1915) -

18: From Revival to Secular Psychology

19: From Revival to Women's Rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More (1898) -

20: From Revival to Rome

Orestes Brownson, "Protestant Revivals and Catholic Retreats" (1858) -

Selected Bibliography

Index

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