Witten offers an in-depth analysis of preaching on an important New Testament text: the Parable of the Prodigal Son. She finds that the transcendent and awesome God of Luther and Calvin--whose image informed early Protestant visions of the relationship between humans and the divine--has been greatly softened in demeanor in American Protestant churches, with only some resistance from "conservative" traditions.
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Witten offers an in-depth analysis of preaching on an important New Testament text: the Parable of the Prodigal Son. She finds that the transcendent and awesome God of Luther and Calvin--whose image informed early Protestant visions of the relationship between humans and the divine--has been greatly softened in demeanor in American Protestant churches, with only some resistance from "conservative" traditions.
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