The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism - Softcover

Hutchison, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822312484 ISBN 13: 9780822312482

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism traces the history of American Protestant thought from the early part of the nineteenth century to the present. William R. Hutchison deals especially with the "modernist" movement that flourished in the years around 1900, and with the colorful personalities and disputes associated with that movement.

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Review:

"A masterful historical-theological survey of American Protestant Liberal thought."
--The Journal of Religion

"The most vivid, compelling, and useful portrait of liberalism yet to appear. . . . A major contribution to our understanding of the career of Christian theology."
--Lloyd J. Averill, "Christian Century"

"One of the three or four masterful interpretations of American theology, impressive in breadth and range, sophisticated in its judgments, sure in its clarification of theological nuance, but never pedantic or tiresome."
--E. Brooks Holifield, "Reviews in American History"

From the Back Cover:

"A landmark volume. . . . Those interested in the history of American thought or religion in general can ill afford to neglect it."--Martin E. Marty

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0822312484
• ISBN 13: 9780822312482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 347