Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism

by Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman explores the world of a neglected group of American Christians: the self-identified liberal evangelicals who began in late nineteenth-century New York to reconcile traditional evangelical spirituality with progressive views on social activism and theological questions. These evangelicals emphasized the importance of supernatural conversion experience, but also argued that scientific advances, new movements in art, and the decline in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199977607
• ISBN13: 9780199977604
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"