After cloven tongues of fire : Protestant liberalism in modern American history /

The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Chri...

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Main Author: Hollinger, David A.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
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520 |a The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation. In this book, one of our preeminent scholars of American intellectual history examines how liberal Protestant thinkers struggled to embrace modernity, even at the cost of yielding much of the symbolic capital of Christianity to more conservative, evangelical communities of faith. 
505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. The Accommodation of Protestant Christianity with the Enlightenment: An Old Drama Still Being Enacted; 2. After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity; 3. The Realist-Pacifist Summit Meeting of March 1942 and the Political Reorientation of Ecumenical Protestantism in the United States; 4. Justification by Verification: The Scientific Challenge to the Moral Authority of Christianity in Modern America; 5. James, Clifford, and the Scientific Conscience.; 6. Damned for God's Glory: William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant Culture7. Communalist and Dispersionist Approaches to American Jewish History in an Increasingly Post-Jewish Era; 8. Church People and Others; 9. Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity; 10. Religious Ideas: Should They Be Critically Engaged or Given a Pass?; Epilogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and Protestant Liberalism; Index. 
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