How Does America Hear the Gospel?

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1989 - 164 páginas
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In this book Dyrness explores the relationship between the biblical gospel and American culture. He shows how three dominant American cultural values -- pragmatism, optimism, and individualism -- have both a positive and negative impact on our Christian discipleship, looks at Walter Rauschenbusch and Robert Schuller as case studies, and sets out a distinctively American way of appropriating the gospel.

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Introduction In Search of Theological Roots
1
Theology and Culture
7
How Does America Hear the Gospel?
10
What Is American?
13
What Has Christianity to Do with American Culture?
15
How Do Gospel and Culture Interact?
19
Christ in Culture or Christ against Culture?
24
The Virgin Land
29
The Puritan Conversion Narrative
84
The Rights of Man
87
NineteenthCentury Perfectionism
89
ClientCentered Counseling
93
Conclusion
96
Communicating the Gospel
100
Prophetic Discipleship
102
Forays into an American Gospel Walter Rauschenbusch and Robert Schuller
106

The Pilgrims Progress
30
A Home in the Wilderness
31
Early to Bed and Early to Rise
37
Pragmatism
43
In Search of a Practical Gospel
48
The Communication of the Gospel
54
Christian Discipleship in the Virgin Land
57
The American Dream
61
The Puritan City of God
62
Secular Events with a Sacred Telos
66
The Revival Mentality
69
Communicating the Gospel to Optimists
75
The American Adam
83
Prophet of the Social Gospel
107
Rauschenbuschs Prophetic Discipleship
113
Robert Schullers Healing Gospel
119
Schullers Contextualized Message
126
Conclusion
131
The Virgin Land Is Not Pure
132
The Dream Does Not Belong to Us
134
The American Adam Is Fallen
137
A Return to God and to Ourselves
138
A Theological and Evangelistic Method for Americans
143
BIBLIOGRAPHY
154
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William A. Dyrness is professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. His other books include Reformed Theology and Visual Culture and A Primer on Christian Worship: Where We?ve Been, Where We Are, Where We Can Go.

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