Philosophy and the Contemporary World: Mercersburg, Culture, and the Church

by John Williamson Nevin

These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality without attention to Christian tradition. The paradoxical result was authoritarian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666762725
• ISBN13: 9781666762723
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"