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- Title
The American "Lives" of Jesus: The Malleable Figure of Christ as a Man of the People.
- Authors
Moody, Lisa
- Abstract
This article focuses on the significance of religious biographies in representing the shifting power of social reform platform that connects the Christian ethics and modern cultural concerns in the Industrial Age. It highlights Harriet Beecher Stowe's biography regarding the lives-of-Jesus, wherein he was able to bridge the gap between the church leaders and social reform writers. The author considers Beecher's preference for interpretive hermeneutics as an expression of his desire to show the ongoing relevance of the Bible to the modern age. It also notes that the biography in Jesus' lives reveal the struggle to contribute to a liberal Protestantism which responds to the declining Calvinist ethos in American culture.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN literature; BIOGRAPHIES; STOWE, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; JESUS Christ -- Early life; CHRISTIAN ethics; PROTESTANTISM; CALVINISTS; RELIGIOUS leaders; BIBLE; RELIGIOUS ethics
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2009, Vol 58, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833310905800202