Binding: Hardcover
Description: Mark Twain's literary works have intrigued and inspired readers from the late 1860s to the present. His varied experiences as a journeyman printer river boat pilot prospector journalist novelist humorist businessman and world traveller combined with his incredible imagination and astonishing creativity enabled him to devise some of American literature's most memorable characters and engaging stories. Twain had a complicated relationship with Christianity. He strove to understand critique and sometimes promote various theological ideas and insights. His religious perspective was often inconsistent and even contradictory. While many scholars have overlooked Twain's strong interest in religious matters others disagree sharply about his religious views - - with many labelling him a secularist an agnostic or an atheist. In this compelling biography Gary Scott Smith shows that throughout his life Twain was an entertainer satirist novelist and reformer but also functioned as a preacher prophet and social philosopher. Twain tackled universal themes with penetrating insight and wit including the character of God human nature sin providence corruption greed hypocrisy poverty racism and imperialism. Moreover his life provides a window into the principal trends and developments in American religion from 1865 to 1910.
Title: Mark Twain Preacher Prophet And Social Philosopher
Author(s): Smith Gary Scott (Grove City College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192894922
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/22/2021
Series: Spiritual Lives
Category: Christian Spirituality & Religious Experience