Böcker av Joseph Haroutunian

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

This book represents the history of the New England theology from 1750 to 1830, revealing a significant conflict of attitudes and ideals involved in the decline of orthodoxy and the rise of the modern spirit in religion. It follows the course of theological discussion from Jonathan Edwards to Nathaniel W. Taylor, in whom liberalism triumphed. It shows how and why historical Christianity became unpalatable and unreasonable to the cultured in New England, how a great spirit was lost with the passing of the Edwardean theology, and how a new Christianity appeared in the place of the old. The author gives some clues to the source and nature of the weaknesses in present-day religious thought and makes a timely contribution to the launching of that reconstruction in Protestant theology, which is, admittedly, very much needed.Joseph Haroutunian's 'Piety Versus Moralism 'presents a signal interpretation of developments in American Protestant theology from Jonathan Edwards to his successors in the early national period. As intellectual history, it stands as one of the most compelling analyses of a transition from Edwards's Augustinian piety to the rational moralism of his successors. As theological history, it offers an acute dissection of the challenges to a truly evangelical witness in the American context. Mark ValeriUnion Theological Seminary in Virginia""This is the most influential book ever written on the New England Theology, America's first indigenous school of Christian thought. I continue to disagree with Haroutunian's manner of speaking of the 'passing' of this theology, but all will be grateful to Wipf and Stock Publishers for this timely new edition of a truly classic piece of American scholarship.Douglas A. Sweeney, Trinity Evangelical Divinity SchoolJoseph Haroutunian (1904-1968) was an American Presbyterian theologian known for his sharp mind and lively spirit. Haroutunian's Columbia University Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by Herbert W. Schneider, was published as 'Piety Versus Moralism. ' Haroutunian taught at Wellesley College, McCormick Theological Seminary, and the University of Chicago, where he was Professor of Systematic Theology.

This book is a study of the misuse of power, which has become the chief social problem of our time. The usual attitude towards will to power is that it is a source of evil and should be held in check as much as possible. There is also the contrary attitude that will to power is a natural impulse that is indispensable for a good life. Our judgment in this matter depends upon whether it is we who seek power, or someone else.There is a natural love of power for a good end. There is also an unnatural lust for power that makes the exercise of power an end in itself. This lust is the corruption of love by a radical distemper in the human soul. It cannot be explained in terms of the quest for security, freedom, prosperity, or any other rational good. It is not caused, either by biological traits or by any particular environment. It is generated by man's despair with his destiny, by the ""power of death"" and the anxious guilt that prevail in human existence.Lust for Power is primarily a description of the process by which love of power is changed into lust for power, with special emphasis on the new power available in our technological society and upon the despair evoked by ""the modern world."" In the last chapter, faith and culture are presented as the double antidote to lust and as the conditions of a life at once natural and good.