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Author Curtis, Susan, 1956-

Title A consuming faith : the social gospel and modern American culture / Susan Curtis.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1991]
©1991

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  277.3082 C981C    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-312) and index.
Contents 1. American Protestantism at a crossroads -- 2. Work and salvation in corporate America -- Washington Gladden : the labor question in industrial America -- Shailer Mathews : "Men must be convinced that you are sincere" -- Caroline Bartlett Crane : professionalization of domesticity, domestication of profession -- 3. American families and the social gospel: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps : 'Half the meaning of the gentle scene is hidden" -- Walter Rauschenbusch : "Bound up by a thousand ties" -- The Macfarlands : a social gospel family -- 4. Ministers and the bully pulpit: Lyman Abbott : from the "Barbarism of individuality" to "Fraternal government" -- Mary Eliza McDowell : cleanliness, godliness, reform -- Bishop Francis John McConnell : herald of a humanized faith -- 5. The Pentecost of calamity : the great war and the social gospel: George Davis Herron : the defeat in the victory -- Harry Emerson Fosdick : the challenge of the present crisis -- Edward Scribner Ames : the new orthodoxy -- 6. A consuming faith : the social gospel and modern American culture: Charles Monroe Sheldon : "Youth, it's your innings!" -- Charles Stelzle : a son of the bowery on Madison Avenue -- Charles E. Jefferson : thirty years on Broadway.
Subject United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
United States -- Church history -- 20th century.
Social gospel.
Protestant churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Indexed Term Society Role of Christianity History
United States
ISBN 0801841674 alkaline paper
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