The Making of the New Spirituality

The Making of the New Spirituality by James A. Herrick Download PDF EPUB FB2

The Making of the New Spirituality is an informative survey of western religious ideas and how they have evolved over the past few centuries. It is also a rather sad survey in that it chronicles a steady erosion of what the author calls the "Revealed Word" view (essentially Christian orthodoxy) as various new notions of spirituality have overtaken that view and in some instances crept into the by: James A.

Herrick is Guy Vander Jagt Professor of communication at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has also written The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists (University of South Carolina Press), Argumentation (Strata), The History and Theory of Rhetoric (Allyn & Bacon), and The Making of the New Spirituality (IVP Books).

He is the author of numerous books, including Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman, Hearing. Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment, and Consumer Rites: The /5(2). I've been using this book in a class I teach on contemporary spirituality, and students have responded well to it.

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