{"product_id":"john-williamson-nevin","title":"John Williamson Nevin","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the college and theological seminary of the German Reformed Church located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The story is a neglected aspect of American studies.  \n\u003cbr\u003eWentz provides a kind of post-modern perspective on Nevin, presenting him as a distinctively American thinker, rather than as a reactionary romantic. Although influenced by German philosophy,\n\u003cbr\u003ehistorical studies, and theology, Nevin's thought was a profound response to the American public context of his day. He was, in many respects, a public theologian, judging the prevailing development of American Christianity as a new religion that was fashioning its own disintegration and that of American culture at large. Nevin's reinterpretation of catholicity in the American context opened the way for a radical understanding of religion and of American public life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156681060590,"sku":"9780195082432","price":185.08,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/john-williamson-nevin","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}