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The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism
Matthew Bowman
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199977604
SKU
V9780199977604
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Ref
99-11
About Matthew Bowman
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.
Reviews for The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism
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 ... Read more