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

Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but are wary of religious enthusiasm. They are deeply skeptical of secular reason, but eager to find sci...

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Main Author: Worthen, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, USA, [2013]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I: Knights Inerrant -- Chapter 1. Errand from the Wilderness -- Chapter 2. The Authority Problem -- Chapter 3. Fundamentalist Demons -- Chapter 4. Reform and Its Discontents -- Part II: To Evangelize the World -- Chapter 5. The Marks of Campus Conversion -- Chapter 6. Missions beyond the West -- Chapter 7. Renewing the Church Universal -- 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 Paradox of the Evangelical Imagination -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 
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