From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (American Intellectual Culture)

In this remarkable work, Roger Lundin seeks the source of American moral and cultural authority in the shift from nature to experience figured in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the pragmatic tradition concludes that experience must generate the very light that will lead us out of its own darkness, From Nature to Experience returns to religion for illumination and truth. This is a story of nineteenth-century sources and twenty-first century consequences in which literature, history, philosophy, and theology are joined in order to form a truly original critique of American culture.

Literature & Fiction

Lundin, Roger

History & Criticism

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

An important contribution to the study of the history of American pragmatism, modern methods of literary criticism and hermeneutics, and 20th-century Protestant theology. . . . Highly recommended.' _Choice 'Drawing on fiction and poetry, Lundin illumines the philosophical issues he explores while never losing the thread of argument. This could well be one of the more important books written in recent times, and hopefully it will receive the wide readership it so richly deserves.' _Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University, and author of With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology 'Roger Lundin has provided a powerful 'genealogy of moral authority'.' _Christianity Today Magazine In this remarkable work, Roger Lundin seeks the source of American moral and cultural authority in the shift from nature to experience figured in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the pragmatic tradition concludes that experience must generate the very light that will lead us out of its own darkness, From Nature to Experience returns to religion for illumination and truth. This is a story of nineteenth-century sources and twenty-first century consequences in which literature, history, philosophy, and theology are joined in order to form a truly original critique of American culture.

A nationally recognized scholar and award-winning author offers a sophisticated theological engagement with the nature of language and literature.

Beginning with the Word: Modern Literature And The Question Of Belief (Cultural Exegesis)

Religion & Spirituality

Baker Academic

Good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear. Light foxing spots/dust-dulling on pages top edge. A slight musty smell.

The responsibility of hermeneutics

Paternoster Press

Garnishing awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books &amp; Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first published in 1998, Roger Lundins Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin skillfully relates Dickinsons life as it can be charted through her poems and letters to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history. This second edition of Lundins superb work includes a standard bibliography, expanded notes, and a more extensive discussion of Dickinsons poetry than the first edition contained. Besides examining Dickinsons singular life and work in greater depth, Lundin has also keyed all poem citations to the recently updated standard edition of Dickinsons poetry. Already outstanding, Lundins biography of Emily Dickinson is now even better than before.

Emily Dickinson: And the Art of Belief

Biographies & Memoirs

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

This book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Lundin explores the historical background of some of our "postmodern" culture's central beliefs and considers their crucial ethical and theological implications.

The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World

Religious Studies

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

Garnering awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books &amp; Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first published in 1998, Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin skillfully relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history. This second edition of Lundin's superb work includes a standard bibliography, expanded notes, and a more extensive discussion of Dickinson's poetry than the first edition contained. Besides examining Dickinson's singular life and work in greater depth, Lundin has also keyed all poem citations to the recently updated standard edition of Dickinson's poetry. Already outstanding, Lundin's biography of Emily Dickinson is now even better than before., the volume begins with a look at early christology and covers the whole of the New Testament from the Gospels to Revelation.

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))

Arts & Literature

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

In Believing Again Roger Lundin brilliantly explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking world. / Lundin's narrative focuses on key poets and novelists from the past two centuries ― Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Melville, Auden, and more ― showing how they portray the modern mind and heart balancing between belief and unbelief. Lundin engages these literary luminaries through chapters on a series of vital subjects, from history and interpretation to beauty and memory. Such theologians as Barth and Balthasar also enter the fray, facing the challenge of modern unbelief with a creative brilliance that has gone largely unnoticed outside the world of faith. Lundin's Believing Again is a beautifully written, erudite examination of the drama and dynamics of belief in the modern world. In Believing Again Roger Lundin brilliantly explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking world. Lundin’s narrative focuses on key poets and novelists from the past two centuries ― Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Melville, Auden, and more ― showing how they portray the modern mind in tension between faith and doubt. Lundin engages these literary luminaries through chapters on a series of vital subjects, from history and interpretation to beauty and memory. Such theologians as Barth and Balthasar also enter the discussion, facing the challenge of modern unbelief with a creative brilliance that has gone largely unnoticed outside the world of faith. Lundin’s Believing Again is a beautifully written, erudite examination of the drama and dynamics of belief in the modern world.

Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age

History

Gathers sermons, letters, essays, speeches, and selections from journals, memoirs, and novels that deal with piety and spiritual experience

Voices from the Heart: Four Centuries of American Piety

New Age & Spirituality

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Library of Religious Biography Series)

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From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (American Intellectual Culture)

From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (American Intellectual Culture)

Beginning with the Word: Modern Literature And The Question Of Belief (Cultural Exegesis)

The responsibility of hermeneutics

Emily Dickinson: And the Art of Belief

The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))

Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age

Voices from the Heart: Four Centuries of American Piety

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Library of Religious Biography Series)