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Welch, Shawn Crane, Gregg David

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1114202
Doc. No	:	TLpq2404596180
Main Entry	:	Crane, Gregg David
	:	Welch, Shawn
Title & Author	:	Justified:\ Welch, ShawnCrane, Gregg David
College	:	University of Michigan
Date	:	2020
student score	:	2020
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	271
Abstract	:	This dissertation tracks the epistemological precursors, what I call the “pragmatic attitudes”, of William James’s pragmatism as they appear in liberal evangelical culture from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the postbellum Social Gospel movement. I examine what I take to be three major epistemological underpinnings of this tradition of evangelical theology – the privileging of direct experience, the practical identification of essence and praxis, and the emergent belief in God’s pervasive affection toward Creation – and their role in the shaping of a distinctively pragmatic ethos in American evangelical culture. By juxtaposing two different traditions – one putatively “secular” and one “sacred” – I offer an interdisciplinary bridge between American religion and philosophy while challenging assumptions that American history can be divided along secular or sacred lines.
Subject	:	American Evangelicalism
	:	Charles Grandison Finney
	:	Intellectual history
	:	Pragmatism
	:	Swedenborg
	:	William James