Original sentence: Despite that optimism, its influence in mainline churches waned in the wake of World War II, as the more moderate alternative of neo-orthodoxy (and later postliberalism) began to supplant the earlier modernism.For Christian theological modernism in the Roman Catholic Church, see Modernism (Roman Catholicism).The word liberal in liberal Christianity denotes a characteristic willingness to interpret scripture in a broad-minded, frank, and intellectually independent manner—with no preconceived notion of inerrancy of scripture when its passages are literally interpreted
Edited sentence: Common methods used by Liberal Christianity's theologians are dialectics, Kantism (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) and the historical-critical method, which first and foremost denies the existence of metaphysical ex ante truths and also denies the existence of all empirically inexplicable miracles.Despite that optimism, its influence in mainline churches waned in in the wake of World War II, as the more moderate alternative of neo-orthodoxy (and later postliberalism) began to supplant the earlier modernism.For the particular intra-ecclesiastical form of theological Modernism condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, see Modernism (Roman Catholicism).The word liberal in liberal Christianity denotes a characteristic willingness to interpret scripture in an intellectually independent manner—with no preconceived notion of inerrancy of biblical scripture when its passages are literally interpreted