Title: Re-forming the center
Description: This book deals with the structure and identity of American Protestantism in the twentieth century. The standard picture of these years portrays Protestantism as divided into two diametrically opposed camps - fundamentalist/evangelical Protestantism and liberal/mainline Protestantism. Re-Forming the Center challenges this two-party thesis, questioning it on the basis of empirical validity and on the basis of contemporary usefulness.

Most of the book's contributors argue that the two-party model not only provides an inadequate map of American Protestantism during the past century but also distorts Protestant hopes for the future. These insightful essays as a whole seek to move beyond a bipolar model and toward the formulation of a more accurate and sophisticated understanding of Protestantism in the United States.
Subjects: Protestantism, Evangelicalism, Church history, Protestant churches, Liberalism (Religion), History, Libéralisme (Religion), Protestantismus, Histoire, Protestantisme, Évangélisme, Église, Églises protestantes, Aufsatzsammlung, United states, church history, 20th century
Places: United States, Protestant churches
Time periods: 20th century