Saving Faith : Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age.
Mislin, David.
Saving Faith : Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (224 pages)
SAVING FAITH -- Contents -- Introduction: The Gilded Age Crisis of Faith and the Reevaluation of Religious Pluralism -- 1. Twilight Faith: The Embrace of Doubt as the Embrace of Diversity -- 2. Correcting Elijah's Mistake: The Liberal Protestant Embrace of Comparative Religion -- 3. An Expansive Kingdom of God: The Articulation of Protestant-Catholic-Jewish Commonality -- 4. Drawing Together: The Cooperative Impulse in Liberal Religious Thought -- 5. A Larger Vision: The Quest for Christian Unity -- 6. Proclaiming Common Ground: The Goodwill Movement and the Shaping of a Jewish-Christian America -- Epilogue: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Chronicling the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples as liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same.
9781501701436
United States--Church history--19th century.
Electronic books.
BL2525
277.3/08
Saving Faith : Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (224 pages)
SAVING FAITH -- Contents -- Introduction: The Gilded Age Crisis of Faith and the Reevaluation of Religious Pluralism -- 1. Twilight Faith: The Embrace of Doubt as the Embrace of Diversity -- 2. Correcting Elijah's Mistake: The Liberal Protestant Embrace of Comparative Religion -- 3. An Expansive Kingdom of God: The Articulation of Protestant-Catholic-Jewish Commonality -- 4. Drawing Together: The Cooperative Impulse in Liberal Religious Thought -- 5. A Larger Vision: The Quest for Christian Unity -- 6. Proclaiming Common Ground: The Goodwill Movement and the Shaping of a Jewish-Christian America -- Epilogue: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Chronicling the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples as liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same.
9781501701436
United States--Church history--19th century.
Electronic books.
BL2525
277.3/08