The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900 By Gary Dorrien. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2001, xxv + 494 pp., $39.95 paper.

In the first of three volumes set to chronicle the liberal Protestant tradition in America, Gary Dorrien's The Making of American Liberal Theology artfully demonstrates that nineteenth-century Protestant liberals occupied a "middle way" between ardent conservatism and dry rationalism. Such ministers, theologians, and thinkers were shaped by Darwinist thought, German theology, and an increasingly progressive social ...

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