James H Moorhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 980018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James H Moorhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | James H |
| FAMILY NAME | Moorhead |
| SIGNATURE | MOORHEAD J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid
Heather D. Curtis investigates what has previously been treated as little more than a footnote to the history of American humanitarianism. Most accounts of the years from 1890 to 1910 emphasize the growth of the American Red Cross (ARC) or the great foundations created by titans of wealth such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Olivia Sage. Curtis focuses on a religious magazine, the Christian Herald, founded in 1878 as the American cou…
The Ecumenical Vision of John A. Mackay
Despite a religious background that he himself later called “completely parochial,” John Mackay matured into a Christian leader with a remarkably inclusive vision. “If it is to be truly ecumenical,” Mackay declared, “the Church must transcend every boundary ... As the Church, it must rise above every human division.” To go beyond such boundaries, Mackay not only engaged in standard ecumenical ventures such as the YMCA and the World Council of Chu…
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Journal Article The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Get access The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. By Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 340 pp. $32.50.) James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological SeminaryPrinceton, New Jersey [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Slavery, Race, and Gender at Princeton Seminary: The Pre-Civil War Era
The pre-Civil War leaders of Princeton Seminary desired social reform and progress, but these had to come gradually and non-disruptively. Thus while Charles Hodge and his colleagues looked for an end to slavery at some indefinite time in the future, they supported in the meantime the colonization of free blacks in Africa and fought immediate emancipation. They likewise opposed full equality for women. A properly ordered society, they believed, in…
Presbyterians and Practice: Reflections on Denominational History in a New Key
If denominational histories were recast as accounts of practice and behavior, there would still be a place for the traditional emphasis on theological debates, but these would be examined with greater attention to their impact on religion as actually lived. Forms of worship, church architecture, the weekly offering envelopes, church potlucks, and ice cream socials would also become important topics. Denominational history written in this key is n…
Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War
Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement. Douglas Morgan
The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought. Barry Alan Shain
A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith
Journal Article A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith. By William H. Armstrong. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. xviii, 518 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-1493-5.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1725–1726, https://doi.org/10.230…
Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970
Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900
Journal Article Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900. By Stuart McConnell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. XX + 312 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2025-3.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 280–281, h…
The Ambiguous Legacy of Modernism
“Critical modernism has not yielded unified convictions but rather a host of alternative theologies and hermeneutical strategies. To make this observation is not to suggest that the clergy should hide all confusions from the laity. Candor is required, but honesty is not likely to be edifying unless pastors and educators stand ready to offer something more than a catalogue of competing views or questions. Here again one faces the need for construc…
American Unitarianism, 1805-1865
Journal Article American Unitarianism, 1803–1863. Ed. By Conrad Edick Wright. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Press, 1989. xiv + 272 pp. $40.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079236 Pub…
Perry Miller's Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism
Research Article| July 01 1987 Perry Miller’s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (3): 312–326. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-3-312 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James H. Moorhead; Perry Miller’s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century …
Book Notices
Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access Bibical Origins of Modern Secular Culture: An Essay in the Interpretation of Western History. By Willis B. Glover. Mercer University Press, 1984. 286 pages. $23.95. James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 375–376, https://doi…
Between Progress and Apocalypse: A Reassessment of Millennialism in American Religious Thought, 1800-1880
A spate of recent scholarship confirms that Coxe's was indeed a hymn for the times. The images of the book of Revelation that inspired his song were virtually ubiquitous among nineteenth-century Americans. The Apocalypse prompted a few, such as the followers of William Miller, to expect the early end of the world and inspired many more in the mainstream denominations to promote revivals, missionary work, and other benevolent causes as a way of in…
The Erosion of Postmillennialism in American Religious Thought, 1865-1925
In 1859 an influential theological quarterly asserted without fear of contradiction that postmillennialism was the "commonly received doctrine" among American Protestants; but by the early twentieth century, it had largely vanished, and Lewis Sperry Chafer, with only slight partisan exaggeration, could claim in 1936 that it was without "living voice". In part, this change resulted from the defection of conservatives like Chafer to the expanding p…
Southern Enterprize: The Work of National Evangelical Societies in the Antebellum South
Journal Article Southern Enterprize: The Work of National Evangelical Societies in the Antebellum South. By John W. Kuykendall. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xv + 188 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 664–665, …
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
Journal Article American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869. By James H. Moorhead. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. xiv + 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Clifford E. Clark, Jr. Clifford E. Clark, Jr. Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1127–1128, https://doi.org/10.23…
Social Reform and the Divided Conscience of Antebellum Protestantism
It is a commonplace of antebellum historiography that the numerous reforms of the age often bore an intimate connection with Protestant evangelicalism, and Charles Grandison Finney is often portrayed as a symbol of this link. In addition to endorsing such causes as antislavery and temperance, the great evangelist inspired numerous converts to work out their salvation through useful service, including reform; and the areas swept by his revivals pr…
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas -- principally that of millennia…
Crusade in the City: Revivalism in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Journal Article Crusade in the City: Revivalism in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Marion L. Bell. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1977. 299 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3,…
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Journal Article The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Get access The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. By Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 340 pp. $32.50.) James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological SeminaryPrinceton, New Jersey [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Between Progress and Apocalypse: A Reassessment of Millennialism in American Religious Thought, 1800-1880
A spate of recent scholarship confirms that Coxe's was indeed a hymn for the times. The images of the book of Revelation that inspired his song were virtually ubiquitous among nineteenth-century Americans. The Apocalypse prompted a few, such as the followers of William Miller, to expect the early end of the world and inspired many more in the mainstream denominations to promote revivals, missionary work, and other benevolent causes as a way of in…
Social Reform and the Divided Conscience of Antebellum Protestantism
It is a commonplace of antebellum historiography that the numerous reforms of the age often bore an intimate connection with Protestant evangelicalism, and Charles Grandison Finney is often portrayed as a symbol of this link. In addition to endorsing such causes as antislavery and temperance, the great evangelist inspired numerous converts to work out their salvation through useful service, including reform; and the areas swept by his revivals pr…
The Erosion of Postmillennialism in American Religious Thought, 1865-1925
In 1859 an influential theological quarterly asserted without fear of contradiction that postmillennialism was the "commonly received doctrine" among American Protestants; but by the early twentieth century, it had largely vanished, and Lewis Sperry Chafer, with only slight partisan exaggeration, could claim in 1936 that it was without "living voice". In part, this change resulted from the defection of conservatives like Chafer to the expanding p…
Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900
Journal Article Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900. By Stuart McConnell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. XX + 312 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2025-3.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 280–281, h…
American Unitarianism, 1805-1865
Journal Article American Unitarianism, 1803–1863. Ed. By Conrad Edick Wright. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Press, 1989. xiv + 272 pp. $40.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079236 Pub…
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
Journal Article American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869. By James H. Moorhead. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. xiv + 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Clifford E. Clark, Jr. Clifford E. Clark, Jr. Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1127–1128, https://doi.org/10.23…
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas -- principally that of millennia…
Crusade in the City: Revivalism in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Journal Article Crusade in the City: Revivalism in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Marion L. Bell. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1977. 299 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3,…
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
Journal Article American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869. By James H. Moorhead. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. xiv + 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Clifford E. Clark, Jr. Clifford E. Clark, Jr. Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1127–1128, https://doi.org/10.23…
Social Reform and the Divided Conscience of Antebellum Protestantism
It is a commonplace of antebellum historiography that the numerous reforms of the age often bore an intimate connection with Protestant evangelicalism, and Charles Grandison Finney is often portrayed as a symbol of this link. In addition to endorsing such causes as antislavery and temperance, the great evangelist inspired numerous converts to work out their salvation through useful service, including reform; and the areas swept by his revivals pr…
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869
Southern Enterprize: The Work of National Evangelical Societies in the Antebellum South
Journal Article Southern Enterprize: The Work of National Evangelical Societies in the Antebellum South. By John W. Kuykendall. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xv + 188 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 664–665, …
Between Progress and Apocalypse: A Reassessment of Millennialism in American Religious Thought, 1800-1880
A spate of recent scholarship confirms that Coxe's was indeed a hymn for the times. The images of the book of Revelation that inspired his song were virtually ubiquitous among nineteenth-century Americans. The Apocalypse prompted a few, such as the followers of William Miller, to expect the early end of the world and inspired many more in the mainstream denominations to promote revivals, missionary work, and other benevolent causes as a way of in…
The Erosion of Postmillennialism in American Religious Thought, 1865-1925
In 1859 an influential theological quarterly asserted without fear of contradiction that postmillennialism was the "commonly received doctrine" among American Protestants; but by the early twentieth century, it had largely vanished, and Lewis Sperry Chafer, with only slight partisan exaggeration, could claim in 1936 that it was without "living voice". In part, this change resulted from the defection of conservatives like Chafer to the expanding p…
Book Notices
Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access Bibical Origins of Modern Secular Culture: An Essay in the Interpretation of Western History. By Willis B. Glover. Mercer University Press, 1984. 286 pages. $23.95. James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 375–376, https://doi…
Perry Miller's Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism
Research Article| July 01 1987 Perry Miller’s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (3): 312–326. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-86-3-312 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James H. Moorhead; Perry Miller’s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century …
The Ambiguous Legacy of Modernism
“Critical modernism has not yielded unified convictions but rather a host of alternative theologies and hermeneutical strategies. To make this observation is not to suggest that the clergy should hide all confusions from the laity. Candor is required, but honesty is not likely to be edifying unless pastors and educators stand ready to offer something more than a catalogue of competing views or questions. Here again one faces the need for construc…
American Unitarianism, 1805-1865
Journal Article American Unitarianism, 1803–1863. Ed. By Conrad Edick Wright. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Press, 1989. xiv + 272 pp. $40.00.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079236 Pub…
Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900
Journal Article Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900. By Stuart McConnell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. XX + 312 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2025-3.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 280–281, h…
A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith
Journal Article A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith. By William H. Armstrong. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. xviii, 518 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-1493-5.) Get access James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1725–1726, https://doi.org/10.230…
Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970
The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought. Barry Alan Shain
Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement. Douglas Morgan
Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War
Presbyterians and Practice: Reflections on Denominational History in a New Key
If denominational histories were recast as accounts of practice and behavior, there would still be a place for the traditional emphasis on theological debates, but these would be examined with greater attention to their impact on religion as actually lived. Forms of worship, church architecture, the weekly offering envelopes, church potlucks, and ice cream socials would also become important topics. Denominational history written in this key is n…
Slavery, Race, and Gender at Princeton Seminary: The Pre-Civil War Era
The pre-Civil War leaders of Princeton Seminary desired social reform and progress, but these had to come gradually and non-disruptively. Thus while Charles Hodge and his colleagues looked for an end to slavery at some indefinite time in the future, they supported in the meantime the colonization of free blacks in Africa and fought immediate emancipation. They likewise opposed full equality for women. A properly ordered society, they believed, in…
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Journal Article The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Get access The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. By Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 340 pp. $32.50.) James H. Moorhead James H. Moorhead Princeton Theological SeminaryPrinceton, New Jersey [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
The Ecumenical Vision of John A. Mackay
Despite a religious background that he himself later called “completely parochial,” John Mackay matured into a Christian leader with a remarkably inclusive vision. “If it is to be truly ecumenical,” Mackay declared, “the Church must transcend every boundary ... As the Church, it must rise above every human division.” To go beyond such boundaries, Mackay not only engaged in standard ecumenical ventures such as the YMCA and the World Council of Chu…
Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid
Heather D. Curtis investigates what has previously been treated as little more than a footnote to the history of American humanitarianism. Most accounts of the years from 1890 to 1910 emphasize the growth of the American Red Cross (ARC) or the great foundations created by titans of wealth such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Olivia Sage. Curtis focuses on a religious magazine, the Christian Herald, founded in 1878 as the American cou…
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