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The new measures : a theological history of democratic practice / Ted A. Smith.
| Author/creator | Smith, Ted A., 1968- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description | xiii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The flyer : a preface for theologions, ethicists, historians, and homileticians -- The new measures and democracy -- Theological history as eschatological memory -- Now is the time -- The fugleman : a brief drill in methodology -- The cultural turn -- Turns to invisible church cultures -- Critical resignations -- A resignation to reflexivity : criticism as self-criticism -- A resignation to hodgepodge : practice makes public -- A resignation to redemption : Rettendekritik -- The form of a fugleman's faith -- Some measures are plainly necessary -- The house commission on measures -- From ornament to means to measure -- Religion is the work of man -- Necessary measures -- A minority report -- Purposeful purposelessness -- Measures for measures -- Agonizing prayer -- You must have something new -- A sailor who lived to tell the tale -- An economy of attention -- The science of sensation -- Caught up in the storm -- The more opposition the better -- It is in vain to drop the subject -- Nothing's shocking -- The witness of fashion, the prayer of the storm -- Sinners bound to change their own hearts -- Reuben Heacock -- Choices waiting for choosers -- The election of God -- Free conversations -- An opponent in theory -- A friend to close for comfort -- The freedom of anxious spectators -- Ideological freedom -- Whosoever will -- Boston and Manlius -- Formal equality and middle-class respectability -- Respectable equality -- General atonement -- Personal preaching -- Free churches -- Coeducation -- The price of resistance -- Riots against respectable equality -- The lynching at Oberlin -- Memories from Manlius -- The first of August -- The measure of the self -- Sir Charles Grandison -- A country in masquerade -- Measures of sincerity -- Practicing what you preach -- The authority of a star -- Opponents in starring roles -- After charisma : mandatory publicity -- After tradition : mandatory personality -- The price of fame -- The subject of redemption -- Gospel stories -- Henry and the pirate -- The time of the type -- The time of the illustration -- Illustrative opponents -- Christian nurture now -- The convert -- The Word made case -- Eschatological memories -- Remarks, or the politics of eschatological memory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-329) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006021510 |
| ISBN | 9780521871310 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 052187131X (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BR515.S62 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |