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050 00 $aBT130$b.J46 1997
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100 1 $aJenkins, Thomas E.,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96103434
245 14 $aThe character of God :$brecovering the lost literary power of American Protestantism /$cThomas E. Jenkins.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1997.
300 $ax, 272 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aReligion in America series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-261) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Character Styles --$gPt. I.$tThe Neoclassical and Sentimental God of the Nineteenth Century.$g2.$tThe Problem of God's Anger.$g3.$tSerenity and Torment: William Ellery Channing, Edwards A. Park, Charles Hodge, and Archibald Alexander Hodge.$g4.$tSympathy and Alienation: Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe --$gII.$tThe Romantic God of the Nineteenth Century.$g5.$tVitality and Anger: W.G.T. Shedd.$g6.$tLove in the Trinity: James Henley Thornwell, George Griffin, and Samuel J. Baird.$g7.$tDesire and Disgust: Horace Bushnell --$gPt. III.$tThe Vague God of the Twentieth Century.$g8.$tModernism and Literature: Theodore Munger and Amos N. Wilder.$g9.$tThe Social Gospel and Its Critics: Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Neibuhr, and J. Gresham Machen.$g10.$tThe limitations of Political Theology: Carl Henry, Harvey Cox, and Martin Luther King, Jr.$g11.$tProspects.
520 1 $a"In The Character of God, author Thomas E. Jenkins maintains that Protestant theology became boring by the late nineteenth century because the depictions of God as a character in theology became boring. He shows how in the early nineteenth century, American Protestant theologians downplayed biblical depictions of God's emotional complexity and refashioned his character according to their own notions, stressing emotional singularity.
520 8 $aThese notions came from many sources, but the major influences were the neoclassical and sentimental literary styles of characterization dominant at the time.".
520 8 $a"Jenkins argues that a way out of this impasse can be found in romanticism, the literary style of characterization that supplanted neoclassicism and sentimentalism and dominated American literary culture throughout the twentieth century. Romanticism emphasized emotional complexity and resonated with biblical depictions of God. But their strange and sometimes shocking depictions of God were largely forgotten in the twentieth century.".
520 8 $a"Jenkins urges a reassessment of their work and a greater understanding of the relationship between theology and literature."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118563
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830 0 $aReligion in America series (Oxford University Press)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86725429
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