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a theological history of democratic practice

Ted A. Smith

Cambridge University Press

xiii, 340 p.: ill

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 fuglemanʹs 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 -- Nothingʹs 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.

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515

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2007

9780521871310 (hardback) ,

Includes bibliographical references p. 263-329 and index

2007