Apostles of reason : the crisis of authority in American evangelicalism / Molly Worthen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worthen, Molly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States.

Evangelicalism.

Fundamentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages ) illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping intellectual history of modern American evangelicalism, arguing that evangelicalism is a community of believers preoccupied by shared anxieties. In Apostles of Reason, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping intellectual history of modern American evangelicalism. Traditionally, evangelicalism has been seen as a cohesive-indeed almost monolithic-religious movement. Sometimes, religion drops out of the picture and evangelicalism is treated strictly as a political force. Worthen argues that these views are false. Evangelicalism is, rather, a community of believers preoccupied by shared anxieties. Evangelicals differ from oneanother on the details of their ideas about God and humankind, but three elemental concerns unite them: how to reconcile faith and reason; how to know Jesus; and how to act on faith in a secularized public square. In combination, under the pressures of modernity, and in the absence of a guiding authoritycapable of resolving uncertainties and disagreements, these anxieties have shaped evangelicals into a distinctive spiritual community.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction

Part I: Knights Inerrant

Chapter 1: War and Worldviews

Chapter 2: The Authority Problem

Chapter 3: Fundamentalist Demons

Chapter 4: Reform and Its Discontents

Part II: To Evangelize the World

Chapter 5: Training Up Soul Winners

Chapter 6: The Modern and Anti-Modern in Missions ...

Chapter 7: One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

Part III: Let Them Have Dominion

Chapter 8: The Gospel of Liberation

Chapter 9: Evangelicals' Great Matter

Chapter 10: God's Idea Men

Chapter 11: The Evangelical Imagination at Millennium's End.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-933415-3

0-19-063051-5

0-19-989647-X

OCLC:

858861584