About this book-

"The constellation of ideas presented by Professor Fishburn of-fers a substantive contribution to the critical understanding of the Social Gospel Movement and its place in the history of American culture. Through her interdisciplinary approach and her sensitivity to the dynamic and complex relation between theological imagery and cultural history, Fishburn comprehends this movement with an exciting breadth of vision. As an essay which demonstrates the interpenetration of theological imagery, cultural values, intellectual events, social problems, and life styles-and shows them all to develop inseparably together-the importance of this work extends beyond its value as a study of a particular movement. In The Fatherhood of God and the Vic-torian Family we are offered a creative model of how to ap-proach the study of American religion, a model in which historical events and theological imagery are never divorced."