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Zusatztext Another fine addition to the suddenly booming historiography on the protestant mainline...Its richly textured account of liberal evangelicalism will equip historians to teach and write more carefully about the so-called fundamentalist-modernist controversy...This is a well-written and cogently argued book, which should be of great interest not only to religious historians but also to anyone fascinated by the cultural history of the modern American city. Informationen zum Autor Matthew Bowman received his PhD in American religious history from Georgetown University in 2010, and is the author of multiple articles in the field, particularly on American evangelicalism and Mormonism. He teaches religion at Hampden Sydney College. Klappentext Matthew Bowman explores the world of a neglected group of American Christians: self-identified liberal evangelicals who began in the late nineteenth century to reconcile traditional evangelical spirituality with progressive views on social activism and theological questions. These evangelicals emphasized both the importance of supernatural conversion experience, but also argued that science, art, and relieving the poverty created by a new industrial economy could facilitate encounters with Christ. The Urban Pulpit chronicles the struggle of liberal evangelicals against conservative Protestants, who questioned their theological sincerity, and against secular reformers, who grew increasingly devoted to the cause of cultural pluralism and increasingly suspicious of evangelicals over the course of the twentieth century. Liberal evangelicals walked a difficult path, facing increasing polarization in twentieth-century American public life: both conservative evangelicals and secular reformers insisted that religion and science, and evangelical Christianity and cultural diversity, were necessarily at odds. Liberal evangelicals rejected such simple dichotomies, but nonetheless found defending their middle way increasingly difficult. Drawing on history, anthropology, and religious studies, Bowman paints a complex portrait of a group of religious believers at work, at worship, and engaged in advocacy in the public square. Zusammenfassung Matthew Bowman explores the world of a neglected group of American Christians: self-identified liberal evangelicals who sought to reconcile traditional evangelical spirituality with progressive views on social activism and theological questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Part I 1. The Word and Old New York 2. The Word Made Stone: Churchbuilding in 1880s New York 3. The Revised Version: Scripture and the Rise of Liberal Evangelicalism 4. Liberal Piety, Social Reform, and the Institutional Church Part II 5. The Word and New New York 6. The Union School of Religion and the Limits of Liberal Evangelicalism 7. John Roach Straton, Prophecy and the Fundamentalist Style 8. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Baptism at Riverside Conclusion Index ...
