John Williamson Nevin

"A thoughtful, scholarly reinterpretation....Wentz's work should be read by today's theologians whose penchant for relevance needs the correction of Nevin, who reminds us that our own great traditions, rightly understood and intelligently appropriated, can be just as revelant as the issues of today's world."--Religious Studies Review "This is a good, solid traditional intellectual history and biography of a significant figure of nineteenth-century Amercian religious history and of a minority strain in American theology calling for a critique of individualism."--Journal for the History of Modern Theology "...[John Williamson Nevin] remains an extremely valuable contribution to Nevin scholarship."--Concordia Theological Quarterly "...[a] thoughtful, provocative book."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin "A thoughtful, scholarly reinterpretation....Wentz's work should be read by today's theologians whose penchant for relevance needs the correction of Nevin, who reminds us that our own great traditions, rightly understood and intelligently appropriated, can be just as revelant as the issues of today's world."--Religious Studies Review "This is a good, solid traditional intellectual history and biography of a significant figure of nineteenth-century Amercian religious history and of a minority strain in American theology calling for a critique of individualism."--Journal for the History of Modern Theology "...[John Williamson Nevin] remains an extremely valuable contribution to Nevin scholarship."--Concordia Theological Quarterly