All Is Forgiven The Secular Message in American Protestantism【電子書籍】[ Marsha G. Witten ]

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＜p＞＜strong＞How the image of God is being refashioned from the Protestant pulpit for an increasingly secular world＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In recent years, direct-mail Christianity has extended a new kind of invitation to the Protestant faithful: slick brochures enumerating the social and psychological advantages of church attendance, with no mention whatsoever of spiritual striving, suffering, or faith in God. Does this kind of secularity prevail in mainline Protestant churches? Marsha Witten looks for an answer to this question through an in-depth analysis of preaching on an important New Testament text: the Parable of the Prodigal Son.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Witten finds that the transcendent and awesome God of Luther and Calvin, whose image informed early Protestant visions of the relationship between human beings and the divine, has been greatly softened in demeanor in American Protestant churches, with only minor resistance from conservative traditions. As preached from the pulpits of the Presbyterian Ch

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