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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452401503321

Autore

Worthen Molly

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

0-19-933415-3

0-19-063051-5

0-19-989647-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages ) : illustrations

Disciplina

262/.80973

Soggetti

Evangelicalism - United States

Fundamentalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.