The making of American liberal theology
Subtitle: imagining progressive religion, 1805-1900
By: Gary Dorrien.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Liberalism (Religion) -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Liberalism (Religion) -- United States -- Protestant churches -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: American liberal theology; Imagining progressive religion, 1805-1900
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-473) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the liberal idea in American religion; title: Unitarian beginnings : William Ellery Channing and the divine likeness; title: Subversive intuitions : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and the transcendentalist revolt; title: Imagination wording forth : Horace Bushnell and the metaphors of inspiration; title: Victorianism in question : Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the religion of reform; title: Progressivism ascending : Theodore Munger, Washington Gladden, Newman Smyth, the new theology, and the social gospel; title: Enter the academics : Charles A. Briggs, Borden Parker Browne, Biblical criticism, and the personalist idea; title: The Victorian gospel : religion and modernity in progress.