The Search for a Plural America: Protestant and Enlightenment Authority in American History
A crisis of authority defines modernity. The crisis in the Christian West dates to the Reformation and the church-and-state conflicts based upon the question: whose Christianity? The crisis deepened during the Enlightenment as advances in science, reason, and technology changed the question: Christi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2016, Volume: 109, Issue: 1, Pages: 144-155 |
| Review of: | The twilight of the American enlightenment (New York, NY : Basic Books, 2014) (Finstuen, Andrew S.)
After cloven tongues of fire (Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2013) (Finstuen, Andrew S.) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Protestantism
/ Liberal theology
/ Enlightenment
/ Society
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | A crisis of authority defines modernity. The crisis in the Christian West dates to the Reformation and the church-and-state conflicts based upon the question: whose Christianity? The crisis deepened during the Enlightenment as advances in science, reason, and technology changed the question: Christianity or not? By the 1960s, post-structuralism or postmodernity had posed the very question of authority and asserted competing authorities. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816015000528 |