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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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.