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The making of American liberal theology : idealism, realism, and modernity, 1900-1950

In the second of this three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday-at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified schools. He argues that in its prime theological liberalism effected a creative blending of theological schools, featured a tension between its evangelical and modernist impulses, and was fueled by its expectation of social and cultural progress until its optimism was subjected to withering internal criticism in the 1930s. - Publisher.

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