Title: American Protestant thought in the liberal era /
Authors: Hutchison, William R.
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Liberalism (Religion) United States.; Theology.; Liberalism (Religion) Protestant churches.
Contents: I. The setting -- The sense of a new environment -- The fortune of my generation / William Jewett Tucker -- II. Characteristic ideas -- Rejection of biblical literalism -- Orthodoxy / Charles A. Briggs -- Confidence in man -- The study of human nature / Henry Ward Beecher -- Distrust of creeds -- A religion of words / David Swing -- Belief in divine immanence -- The continuity of Christian thought / Alexander V. G. Allen -- Reliance upon historical process -- The historical study of Christianity / Arthur C. McGiffert -- Philosophical idealism -- Personalism / Borden P. Bowne -- Modernism -- The affirmations of faith / Shailer Mathews -- III. Implications -- Changes in the missionary enterprise -- The gospel for humanity / George A. Gordon -- A revised ethics -- The new evangelism / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Progressive religious education -- Salvation by education / George A. Coe -- A new catholicity -- Passing Protestantism and coming Catholicism / Newman Smyth -- Religious radicalism -- The function of religion / George B. Foster