1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents
PART ONE: The rise of liberal evangelicalism. The word and old New York -- The word made stone: church building in 1880s New York -- The revised version: scripture and the rise of liberal evangelicalism -- Liberal piety, social reform, and the institutional church -- PART TWO: The pressures of liberal evangelicalism. The word and new New York -- The Union School of Religion and the limits of liberal evangelicalism -- John Roach Straton, prophecy, and the fundamentalist style -- Harry Emmerson Fosdick and baptism at riverside
Summary
This study examines how the rise of liberal and fundamentalist factions of American evangelicalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a dispute usually assumed to be basically theological - appeared from the perspective of the ministers and congregations of New York City's Protestant churches. The rise of liberalism and fundamentalism cannot be understood apart from their interaction with the social and cultural forces of the changing modern city - and particularly, their interaction with the welter of reform movements the advent of modernity inaugurated, usually called progressivism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014)
