Awash in a Sea of Faith | Awash in a Sea of Faith

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Author: Jon Butler
First Published: 1990
Type of Work: Social history
Time of Work: The early seventeenth century to the Civil War
Setting: The United States
Principal Characters: Cotton Mather, James Blair, George Whitefield, William Tennent, Sr., Gilbert Tennent, John Tennent, William Tennent, Jr., Charles Tennent, James Madison, Richard Allen, Abraham Lincoln
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
Subjects: Magic or magicians, Politics, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Social life, Christianity, Symbolism, Clergy, Occultism or the occult, Puritans or Puritanism, Astrology or astrologers
Locales: United States

In a plea for the continuation of religious establishmentarianism in Germany, Ernst Troeltsch, one of Heidelberg’s leading intellectuals, argued in 1912 that American-style separation would lead to the death of continuing Christian influence in German culture. In America, he observed, one finds “a domination of religion in social life which is astonishing to us Germans, and a removal of religion from all political carryings-on which is even more unfamiliar to us. For us, on the contrary, religion is virtually without significance in society, but yet, through union with certain...

Awash in a Sea of Faith | Awash in a Sea of Faith

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