Contents; Introduction; ONE: A Final Act of Purification: The Modern Scientific Attack on Prayer; TWO: Proving the Living God: Answered Prayer as a Modern Evangelical Apologetic; THREE: The Spiritual Unrest: The Cultural Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FOUR: Divine Immanence: The Ideological Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FIVE: A Sane Mysticism: The Christocentric Liberal Ethic of Prayer; SIX: The New Belief in Prayer: Healing and Intercession in Liberal Protestantism; SEVEN: The Religion of a Mature Mind: Liberal Devotional Teachings in the Early Twentieth Century
EIGHT: Modernism and Prayer in the TwentiesNotes; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
By the end of the 19th century, many in the emerging middle-class culture saw themselves as too busy to practice the rigorous devotions of their ancestors. In this book, Rick Ostrander explores the attempts of American Protestants to articulate a convincing and satisfying ethic of prayer in changing circumstances
