Contemporary American Protestant thought, 1900-1970.

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Other Authors: Miller, William Robert, 1927-1970 (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1973]
Series:American heritage series (New York, N.Y.) ; no. 84.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Bibliographical essay
  • Part one-the Progressive era, 1900-1917
  • 1. Henry Churchill King, Theological of laissez-faire liberalism
  • Reconstruction in theology (1900)
  • 2. Josiah Strong, Neo-Puritan moralist of American empire
  • The social laws of Jesus (1902)
  • 3. Josiah Royce, dialectician of the Spirit
  • What is vital in Christianity (1909)
  • 4. William James, psychologist of belief
  • Pluralism and religious experience (1909)
  • 5. Walter Rauschenbusch, prophet of social Christianity
  • Social Christianity and personal religion (1912)
  • 6. Woodrow Wilson, progressive Calvinist statesman
  • The minister and the community (1909)
  • Militant Christianity (1914)
  • A new kind of church life (1915)
  • Part tow-the optimistic decade, 1918-1929
  • 7. Harry Emerson Foscdick, Biblical modernist
  • Progressive Christianity (1922)
  • 8. Edward Scribner Ames, Christian humanist
  • Religious values and the practical absolute (1922)
  • 9. Edgar Sheffield Brightman, theistic personalist
  • The human values of religion (1925)
  • Part three-years of crisis, 1930-1950
  • 10. Walter Lowrie, catalyst of neo-orthodoxy
  • 11. H. Richard Niebuhr, radical confessionalist
  • Moral relativism and the Christian ethic (1929)
  • The attack upon the social gospel (1936)
  • 12. Rufus M. Jones, guardian of the inner light
  • The inner life and the social order (1936)
  • 13. Charles Harshorne, Metaphysician of dipolar theism
  • Redefining God (1934)
  • Ethics and the new theology (1934)
  • 14. Henry Nelson Wieman, empirical theorist of creativity
  • What is most important in Christianity? (1940)
  • Part four-bridging the decades
  • 15. Reinhold Niebuhr, dialectical pragmatist
  • Pacifism and the use of force (1928)
  • Christian moralism in America (1940)
  • The gospel in future America (1958)
  • The crisis in American Protestantism (1963)
  • Part five-toward the post-modern era, 1951-1970
  • 16. James M. Gustafson, ecumenical ethicist
  • Christian attitudes toward technological society (1959)
  • 17. Thomas J.J. Altizer, visionary theologian
  • The challenge of modern Gnosticism (1962)
  • 18. John B. Cobb, Jr., synthesizer of process theology
  • From crisis theology to the post-modern world (1964)
  • 19. Carl Michalson, transitional theologian
  • Is American theology coming of age? (1965)
  • 20. Martin Luther King Jr., black prophet of the American dream
  • Man in a revolutionary world (1965)
  • 21. Paul M. Van Buren, Christologist of freedom
  • The dissolution of the absolute (1965)
  • 22. Peter L. Berger, sociologist
  • A sociological view of the secularization of theology (1967)
  • 23. W. Richard Comestock, neo-Christian philosopher
  • Marshall McLuhan's theory of sensory form: a theological reflection (1968).