The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950

By Gary J. Dorrien

In this book, the second of his three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday--at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological liberalism effected a creative blending of theological schools, featured a tension between its evangelical and modernist impulses, and was fueled by its expectation of social and cultural progress, until its optimism was subjected to withering internal criticism in the 1930s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0073AH9T0
• ISBN13: 9780664223557
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 666 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"