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Between 1917 and 1960 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave away roughly a billion dollars. Schenkel investigates this century's foremost religious philanthropist, who hoped to use his staggering wealth to fund "a Christian America," to establish the kingdom of God in America, and to bolster the religious establishment that alone, he felt, could stave civil unrest.Schenkel's lively study casts light particularly on the waning of Protestant religious hegemony, the network of persons and institutions that guided the "establishment," and the ambiguities and ironies of the religion/capital relationship. He opens a window on the self-understanding of liberal American Protestantism as it embraced and then succumbed to the "modernist" impulse, only to find itself dethroned by the secularism and pluralism it had, in part, spawned.

Excerpt from Religious DutyIT is not the concern of the moralist, but of the psychologist, to investigate the fundamental prin ciple of the religious sentiment in the human soul. That sentiment may be, in its germ (as Schleier macher has affirmed), a mere sense of dependence. More accurately defined (as by Schenkel), it may be a sense of dependence ethically induced. In its perfect form, it would seem to be best described as the sense of absolute dependence united with the sense of absolute moral allegiance the Being on whom we depend being recognized as possessing the right to claim, as well as the power to enforce, our abso lute obedience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Between 1917 and 1960 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave away roughly a billion dollars. Schenkel investigates this century's foremost religious philanthropist, who hoped to use his staggering wealth to fund "a Christian America," to establish the kingdom of God in America, and to bolster the religious establishment that alone, he felt, could stave civil unrest.Schenkel's lively study casts light particularly on the waning of Protestant religious hegemony, the network of persons and institutions that guided the "establishment," and the ambiguities and ironies of the religion/capital relationship. He opens a window on the self-understanding of liberal American Protestantism as it embraced and then succumbed to the "modernist" impulse, only to find itself dethroned by the secularism and pluralism it had, in part, spawned.