"Heather Warren shows how, in creating a coherent, theologically derived position and bringing it to bear on contemporary international issues, this group combined ideas with public action in a way that set the standard for American theologians' social activism in the years to c…
This book tells how a group of Protestant theologians, including Henry P. Van Dusen, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Bennett, Francis P. Miller, Georgia Harkness, and Samuel McCrea Cavert, forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and '40s. As a result, they …
In 'The Rise of Liberal Religion' Matthew Hedstrom tells the story of how, beginning in the 1920s, American religious leaders joined forces with the publishing industry in an attempt to form a 'spiritual center' - a set of widely accepted religious ideas practices, and presuppos…
In 'The Rise of Liberal Religion' Matthew Hedstrom tells the story of how, beginning in the 1920s, American religious leaders joined forces with the publishing industry in an attempt to form a 'spiritual center' - a set of widely accepted religious ideas practices, and presuppos…