Leonard I Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1051858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard I Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard I |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET L I |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From semiotic exegesis to contextual ecclesiology
This essay uses the global impact of the Coronavirus as a heuristic semiotic for exploring the future of the church. Unlike the pandemic of 1918, which left few dents on the world’s economic, social, and cultural systems, almost all the nations of the world have passed laws and implemented procedures that are only comparable to world wars in their impact on entire populations. Nations are acting in unison, but not in unity. This post-COVID, post-…
Lion of the Forest
Journal Article Lion of the Forest: James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer. By Charles C. Cole Jr. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1994. xvi, 271 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8131-1863-8.) Get access Leonard Sweet Leonard Sweet Drew University Theological School, Madison, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 206–207, https://doi.org/10.230…
Straddling Modernism and Postmodernism
“Why has what Cobb positions as the two basic forms of postmodern theology, process and deconstruction, made so little impact on theological education, to say nothing of grasping the imagination and loyalty of either the church's faithful or its disaffected? Why has process theology not lived up to its potential within the church, which has devoured ‘group process’ (and been devoured by it) while turning down process thought? Indeed, why are both…
Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves
Journal Article Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: The New Evangelical Historiography Get access Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I Sweet is President and Professor of Church History, United Theological Seminary, 1810 Harvard Blvd, Dayton, OH 45406 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 397–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
The Female Seminary Movement and Woman's Mission in Antebellum America
The years 1820-1850 were characterized by a remarkable transition in American education. A decisive shift occurred in the philosophy and patterns of educating American women which would have marked social, economic, and political ramifications in antebellum America. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, females were seen as weaker intellectually than males; they were denied the right to an equal education with males; and they wer…
Seminary and Congregation
“Disturbed by what is perceived to be large portions of theological goulash served with only a garnish of spirituality, congregations shake their heads and wonder. If the study of God does not bring one closer to God, what good is it? Even when the communication continues between congregations and seminaries, congregations have the uneasy feeling that seminaries tell what we already know in language we can't understand.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Journal Article Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography. By Elizabeth Cazden. (Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1983. xii + 315 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $16.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I. Sweet Colgate-Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, Mar…
The Minister's Wife
The Minister's Wife
Journal Article The Minister's Wife: Her Role in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelicalism. By Leonard I. Sweet. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. viii + 327 pp. Notes and index. $29.95.) Get access Joan Jacobs Brumberg Joan Jacobs Brumberg Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 663–664, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
Theological Table-Talk
The Epic of Billy Graham
Congregation and Community
The Dialects of Black Consciousness
The Nerve of Failure
“The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure ... Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve—to dare to dream dreams, venture visions, and risk getting splinters that come from cutting against the grain.”
Black Images of America, 1784-1870
Critic's Corner
The Fourth of July and Black Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Respectable Folly
The View of Man Inherent in New Measures Revivalism
It has been almost exiomatic to speak of Charles G. Finney as the religious spokesman for "the Age of Jackson," and to see the optimistic view of man supposedly inherent in Finney's "new measures" revivalism as the religious equivalent of the Jacksonian faith in the worth and dignity of the common man. Finney's ablest interpreter, William G. McLoughlin, has contended that "Finney and Jackson, each in his own way, were striving for much the same k…
The Fourth of July and Black Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves
Journal Article Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: The New Evangelical Historiography Get access Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I Sweet is President and Professor of Church History, United Theological Seminary, 1810 Harvard Blvd, Dayton, OH 45406 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 397–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
The View of Man Inherent in New Measures Revivalism
It has been almost exiomatic to speak of Charles G. Finney as the religious spokesman for "the Age of Jackson," and to see the optimistic view of man supposedly inherent in Finney's "new measures" revivalism as the religious equivalent of the Jacksonian faith in the worth and dignity of the common man. Finney's ablest interpreter, William G. McLoughlin, has contended that "Finney and Jackson, each in his own way, were striving for much the same k…
The Female Seminary Movement and Woman's Mission in Antebellum America
The years 1820-1850 were characterized by a remarkable transition in American education. A decisive shift occurred in the philosophy and patterns of educating American women which would have marked social, economic, and political ramifications in antebellum America. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, females were seen as weaker intellectually than males; they were denied the right to an equal education with males; and they wer…
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Journal Article Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography. By Elizabeth Cazden. (Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1983. xii + 315 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $16.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I. Sweet Colgate-Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, Mar…
Critic's Corner
The Fourth of July and Black Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Respectable Folly
The View of Man Inherent in New Measures Revivalism
It has been almost exiomatic to speak of Charles G. Finney as the religious spokesman for "the Age of Jackson," and to see the optimistic view of man supposedly inherent in Finney's "new measures" revivalism as the religious equivalent of the Jacksonian faith in the worth and dignity of the common man. Finney's ablest interpreter, William G. McLoughlin, has contended that "Finney and Jackson, each in his own way, were striving for much the same k…
The Dialects of Black Consciousness
The Nerve of Failure
“The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure ... Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve—to dare to dream dreams, venture visions, and risk getting splinters that come from cutting against the grain.”
Black Images of America, 1784-1870
Congregation and Community
Theological Table-Talk
The Epic of Billy Graham
The Minister's Wife
The Minister's Wife
Journal Article The Minister's Wife: Her Role in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelicalism. By Leonard I. Sweet. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. viii + 327 pp. Notes and index. $29.95.) Get access Joan Jacobs Brumberg Joan Jacobs Brumberg Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 663–664, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
Seminary and Congregation
“Disturbed by what is perceived to be large portions of theological goulash served with only a garnish of spirituality, congregations shake their heads and wonder. If the study of God does not bring one closer to God, what good is it? Even when the communication continues between congregations and seminaries, congregations have the uneasy feeling that seminaries tell what we already know in language we can't understand.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Journal Article Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography. By Elizabeth Cazden. (Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1983. xii + 315 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $16.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I. Sweet Colgate-Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, Mar…
The Female Seminary Movement and Woman's Mission in Antebellum America
The years 1820-1850 were characterized by a remarkable transition in American education. A decisive shift occurred in the philosophy and patterns of educating American women which would have marked social, economic, and political ramifications in antebellum America. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, females were seen as weaker intellectually than males; they were denied the right to an equal education with males; and they wer…
Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves
Journal Article Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: The New Evangelical Historiography Get access Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I. Sweet Leonard I Sweet is President and Professor of Church History, United Theological Seminary, 1810 Harvard Blvd, Dayton, OH 45406 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 397–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
Straddling Modernism and Postmodernism
“Why has what Cobb positions as the two basic forms of postmodern theology, process and deconstruction, made so little impact on theological education, to say nothing of grasping the imagination and loyalty of either the church's faithful or its disaffected? Why has process theology not lived up to its potential within the church, which has devoured ‘group process’ (and been devoured by it) while turning down process thought? Indeed, why are both…
Lion of the Forest
Journal Article Lion of the Forest: James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer. By Charles C. Cole Jr. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1994. xvi, 271 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8131-1863-8.) Get access Leonard Sweet Leonard Sweet Drew University Theological School, Madison, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 206–207, https://doi.org/10.230…
From semiotic exegesis to contextual ecclesiology
This essay uses the global impact of the Coronavirus as a heuristic semiotic for exploring the future of the church. Unlike the pandemic of 1918, which left few dents on the world’s economic, social, and cultural systems, almost all the nations of the world have passed laws and implemented procedures that are only comparable to world wars in their impact on entire populations. Nations are acting in unison, but not in unity. This post-COVID, post-…
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