Author: Ostrander, Rick
Title: The Life of Prayer in a World of Service: Protestants, Prayer and American Culture 1870-1930
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. orig.boards. 24x15cm, (4), 232 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: A Final Act of Purification: The Modern Scientific Attack on Prayer; Proving the Living God: Answered Prayer as a Modern Evangelical Apologetic; The Spiritual Unrest: The Cultural Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; Divine Immanence: The Ideological Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; A Sane Mysticism: The Christocentric Liberal Ethic of Prayer; The New Belief in Prayer: Healing & Intercession in Liberal Protestantism; The Religion of a Mature Mind: Liberal Devotional Teachings in the Early Twentieth Century; Modernism & Prayer in the Twenties.

Keywords: History of Religion, United States, Protestantism, Protestant Doctrine, Doctrinal, Christian Theology, Theological, Prayer,