In this cultural and intellectual history, David Burns contends that the influence of biblical criticism in America was more widespread than has been thought. Burns proves this point by uncovering the hidden history of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created and sustained by freethinkers, feminists, socialists, and anarchists during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The result of this exploration is a new narrative revealing that Cyrenus Ward, Caroline Bartlett, George Herron, Bouck White, and other radical religionists had an impact on the history of religion in America rivaling that of recognized religious intellectuals such as Shailer Mathews, Charles Briggs, Francis Peabody, and Walter Rauschenbusch. The methods utilized by radical religionists were different from those employed by elite liberal divines, however, and part of a larger struggle over the relationship between religion and civilization. There were numerous reasons for this conflict, but Burns argues that the primary cause was that key radical religionists used Ernest Renan's The Life of Jesus to create an imaginative brand of biblical criticism that struck a balance between the demands of reason and the doctrines of religion. And this measured approach allowed Robert Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene Debs, and other secular-minded thinkers who sought to purge Christianity of its supernatural dimensions to still find something wonderful in the religious imagination and make common cause with an ancient peasant from Galilee. This provocative blend of reason and religion produced a vibrant countercultural movement that spanned communities, classes, and creeds and makes The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus a book that deserves a wide readership in an era when public intellectuals and politicians on both the left and right draw rigid lines between the secular and the sacred.

The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus (Religion in America)

History

Burns, David

World

Oxford University Press

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An Introduction To Biophysics (1921)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Kessinger Publishing

Autobiography of David Burns, 1928-1949. Book-obsessed childhood in the Depression in a small town in Kentucky; running away from home on his 15th birthday; three years in Washington in Capitol Page School, dropping out many times, never completing first semester of tenth grade; copy boy and photographer's apprentice at The Evening Star newspaper; three years in the Air Force. Managing somehow to be admitted to Princeton. The autobiography is interspersed with four vivid chapters of imaginary ancestors: Long Hunters in 18th century Kentucky; pioneers on The Wilderness Road from Cumberland Gap; building gristmills and sawmills; and the legacy of coal mining which has left much of Appalachia, land AND people, 'HOLLOWED OUT'.

Quests

Parenting & Relationships

iUniverse

Offers market intelligence on the engine and rolling stock fleets of the world's railway systems. The binder provides information on types, numbers and ages of locomotives, passenger and freight vehicles in service with railway and metro companies. It examines each system's existing vehicle inventory, and identifies the models, numbers in service and original delivery dates. It also reviews current new procurement and upgrade programmes, system-by-system, and allows the reader to discover the name of contractors, the type of work in progress, value and estimated delivery dates. There are assessments of each system's likely requirements, based on the age of existing equipment and their strategic plans for investment in routes, maintenance and new locomotives and rolling stock. The binder includes three updates, in March, June and September 1997.

Locomotive and Rolling Stock Forecasts

Business & Money

Economics

Janes Information Group

Stark's conjectures on the behavior of $L$-functions were formulated in the 1970s. Since then, these conjectures and their generalizations have been actively investigated. This has led to significant progress in algebraic number theory. The current volume, based on the conference held at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), represents the state-of-the-art research in this area. The first four survey papers provide an introduction to a majority of the recent work related to Stark's conjectures. The remaining six contributions touch on some major themes currently under exploration in the area, such as non-abelian and $p$-adic aspects of the conjectures, abelian refinements, etc. Among others, some important contributors to the volume include Harold M. Stark, John Tate, and Barry Mazur. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in number theory.

Stark's Conjectures: Recent Work And New Directions : An International Conference On Stark's Conjectures And Related Topics, August 5-9, 2002, Johns Hopkins University (Contemporary Mathematics)

Mathematics

Amer Mathematical Society

An Introduction to Biophysics: -1921

Cornell University Library

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An Introduction to Biophysics

Nabu Press

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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An introduction to biophysics

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