Background
Wentz, Richard Eugene was born on January 10, 1928 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Walter E. and Mary Susanna (Snyder) Wentz.
(Discusses the nature of folk spirituality, introduces the...)
Discusses the nature of folk spirituality, introduces the Pennsylvania Dutch, and provides sources that illustrate the many facets of their spiritual heritage.
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Religious pluralism has been a defining characteristic of the American experience since colonial times. In the twentieth century, as American society has become more radically pluralistic, the issue of religious identity is once again in flux.Providing a historical context, Richard Wentz examines the challenges that pluralism presents to denominationalism and civil religion and considers the contributions secularism and the New Age movement have made to the culture of religious pluralism. Finally, Wentz calls for a new pluralism based on civility and respect, a reimmersion into our religious traditions, and an extension of ourselves into the traditions of others.
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This 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. Wentz 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, historical 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.
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Wentz, Richard Eugene was born on January 10, 1928 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Walter E. and Mary Susanna (Snyder) Wentz.
AB, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, 1948. Bachelor's Degree, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Theological Seminary, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, George Washington University, 1971.
Master English and Bible, Mercersburg (Pennsylvania) Academy, 1955-1962. Assistant professor religious studies Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1962-1972. Professor religious studies Arizona State University, Tempe, since 1972, professor emeritus, since 1999.
Distinguished visiting professor University Tulsa, 1991.
(Discusses the nature of folk spirituality, introduces the...)
(This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nev...)
( Religious pluralism has been a defining characteristic ...)
(Great for study or review!)
Member American Academy Religion (president western region 1989).
Married Yvonne Louise Delauder, June 25, 1955. Children: Selena Louise, Susanna Marie, Melissa Roulette. Married Cynthia G. Carsten, December 21, 1991.
1 child, Shawn Marie.
