Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1963 - 464 pages Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor |
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... preaching threatened to dissolve all ra- tional elements in religion , for many of the evangelists admitted that their preaching came by " the immediate impression of the Holy Ghost putting a long chain of thoughts into their minds and ...
... preaching threatened to dissolve all ra- tional elements in religion , for many of the evangelists admitted that their preaching came by " the immediate impression of the Holy Ghost putting a long chain of thoughts into their minds and ...
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... preaching methods and in his conception of the ministry . He did not admire ignorance in preachers , but he admired soul - winning re- sults , no matter how achieved ; he scorned the written sermon , because it lacked spontaneity ; and ...
... preaching methods and in his conception of the ministry . He did not admire ignorance in preachers , but he admired soul - winning re- sults , no matter how achieved ; he scorned the written sermon , because it lacked spontaneity ; and ...
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... preaching . Surely the great- est image in the history of American preaching was Jonathan Ed- wards's image of the soul as a spider held over the fire in the kitchen stove , suspended by a silken thread at the mercy of God . And is it ...
... preaching . Surely the great- est image in the history of American preaching was Jonathan Ed- wards's image of the soul as a spider held over the fire in the kitchen stove , suspended by a silken thread at the mercy of God . And is it ...
Table des matières
Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
THE RELIGION OF THE HEART | 53 |
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