The Battery and the Windmill
Two Models of Protestant Devotionalism in Early-Twentieth-Century America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3235781 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Ostrander (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 42 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009640700083062 |
| OpenAlex | W4234322467, W2160833402 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In 1912, Andrew Murray, an influential spokesperson for the Keswick theology prevalent in American fundamentalism, decried the sorry state of spirituality among modern Christians. How many there are, he exclaimed, who "say that they have no time and that the heart desire for prayer is lacking; they do not know how to spend half an hour with God! ... Day after day, month after month passes, and there is no time to spend one hour with God." Closing his jeremiad, Murray exclaimed, "How many there are who take only five minutes for prayer!" A few years later, Herbert Willett and Charles Clayton Morrison, editors of The Christian Century, the voice of the emerging liberal movement in American Protestantism, published a daily devotional guide entitled The Daily Altar. Its purpose was to provide Christians with "a few moments of quiet and reflection" in the midst of "short and crowded days" in order to maintain a daily prayer life. To be precise, devotions in The Daily Altar took one and a half minutes to complete
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| Highly cited | No |
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