The Urban Pulpit
New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 April 2014
- ISBN 9780199977604
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 155x236x30 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 illus. 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
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
