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BL
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581198
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b410417
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| Main Entry
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Jenkins, Thomas E.,1962-
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| Title & Author
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The character of God : : recovering the lost literary power of American Protestantism /\ Thomas E. Jenkins.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1997.
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| Series Statement
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Religion in America series
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x, 272 p. ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195112024 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780195112023 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-261) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Character Styles -- The Neoclassical and Sentimental God of the Nineteenth Century -- The Problem of God's Anger -- Serenity and Torment: William Ellery Channing, Edwards A. Park, Charles Hodge, and Archibald Alexander Hodge -- Sympathy and Alienation: Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Romantic God of the Nineteenth Century -- Vitality and Anger: W. G. T. Shedd -- Love in the Trinity: James Henley Thornwell, George Griffin, and Samuel J. Baird -- Desire and Disgust: Horace Bushnell -- The Vague God of the Twentieth Century -- Modernism and Literature: Theodore Munger and Amos N. Wilder -- The Social Gospel and Its Critics: Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and J. Gresham Machen -- The Limitations of Political Theology: Carl Henry, Harvey Cox, and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Prospects.
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God (Christianity)-- Attributes-- History of doctrines-- 19th century.
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Christianity and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Protestant churches-- United States-- Doctrines-- History-- 19th century.
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God (Christianity)-- Attributes-- History of doctrines-- 20th century.
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Christianity and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Protestant churches-- United States-- Doctrines-- History-- 20th century.
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| LC Classification
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BT130.J46 1997
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