Distinctive Christianity
217. Paul Gutacker on The Old Faith in a New Nation
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In this episode, we welcome Dr. Paul Gutacker to discuss his book The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past [https://www.amazon.com/Old-Faith-New-Nation-Protestants/dp/0197639151/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9DjqsQkoObgaEDcmN5MZfAWaB0erpNDjy7VEE5-Vn1hooExZsm75C7pjJEwwpfvX.zw6j-Ykc2PvJ3WPhlSPClqrpQlzrG_yGm-1NJ71J9zU&dib_tag=se&qid=1772589229&sr=8-2]. Given a construct of “biblicism” - the standard narrative of American evangelicalism often assumes or involves the ahistoric and anti-traditional. Yet, as Dr. Gutacker both argues and writes: “American Protestants never read, or argued over, the Bible alone.” What was the place, role, and priority of the past in the polemics of early American history? Indeed, how does the key role that history played in the arguments all throughout the period of 1780-1864 contribute to a proper understanding of the “democratization of American Christianity”? What were the sources so often studied and cited in debates among all the Christian denominations – as well as their historiographical tendencies and patterns of analysis? From many of the Founding Fathers to Baptist minister James P. Boyce and the founding of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – to even Restorationism, or the “Christian movement” - the arguments among Christians are saturated with appeals to history, and past Christian thinkers. Indeed, “religious memory contributed to denominational competition”. Moreover, far from “biblicism” alone leading to an inevitable impasse during the crisis surrounding the Civil War, tradition was no more able to settle the debates regarding slavery and even the place of the Church, either. Listen in as we hear Dr. Gutacker take us into this, and even more regarding questions of the Great Tradition, the place of history, and even how the blind spots of the past may help us be more sensitive to the blind spots of the present. Book: The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past [https://www.amazon.com/Old-Faith-New-Nation-Protestants/dp/0197639151/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9DjqsQkoObgaEDcmN5MZfAWaB0erpNDjy7VEE5-Vn1hooExZsm75C7pjJEwwpfvX.zw6j-Ykc2PvJ3WPhlSPClqrpQlzrG_yGm-1NJ71J9zU&dib_tag=se&qid=1772589229&sr=8-2] Also check out: Brazos Fellows [https://www.brazosfellows.com/staff--team.html] The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark Noll How To Think by Alan Jacobs Dominion by Tom Holland Evangelicals and Tradition by D. H. Williams The Spirit of Early Christian Thought; Liberty in the Things of God by Robert Louis Wilken “General History of the Baptist Denomination” [https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof02bene/page/n3/mode/1up] by David Benedict
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