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Welch, Shawn

The Pragmaticization of American Evangelicalism from Jonathan Edwards to the Social Gospel

Crane, Gregg David

University of Michigan

2020

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Ph.D.

University of Michigan

2020

This dissertation tracks the epistemological precursors, what I call the "pragmatic attitudes", of William James's pragmatism as they appear in liberal evangelical culture from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the postbellum Social Gospel movement. I examine what I take to be three major epistemological underpinnings of this tradition of evangelical theology - the privileging of direct experience, the practical identification of essence and praxis, and the emergent belief in God's pervasive affection toward Creation - and their role in the shaping of a distinctively pragmatic ethos in American evangelical culture. By juxtaposing two different traditions - one putatively "secular" and one "sacred" - I offer an interdisciplinary bridge between American religion and philosophy while challenging assumptions that American history can be divided along secular or sacred lines.

American Evangelicalism

Charles Grandison Finney

Intellectual history

Pragmatism

Swedenborg

William James

Crane, Gregg David

Welch, Shawn

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