The Search for a Plural America: Protestant and Enlightenment Authority in American History

A crisis of authority defines modernity. The crisis in the Christian West dates to the Reformation and the church-and-state conflicts based upon the question: whose Christianity? The crisis deepened during the Enlightenment as advances in science, reason, and technology changed the question: Christi...

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Main Author: Finstuen, Andrew S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2016]
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2016, Volume: 109, Issue: 1, Pages: 144-155
Review of:The twilight of the American enlightenment (New York, NY : Basic Books, 2014) (Finstuen, Andrew S.)
After cloven tongues of fire (Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2013) (Finstuen, Andrew S.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Protestantism / Liberal theology / Enlightenment / Society
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
KBQ North America
KDD Protestant Church
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:A crisis of authority defines modernity. The crisis in the Christian West dates to the Reformation and the church-and-state conflicts based upon the question: whose Christianity? The crisis deepened during the Enlightenment as advances in science, reason, and technology changed the question: Christianity or not? By the 1960s, post-structuralism or postmodernity had posed the very question of authority and asserted competing authorities.
ISSN:1475-4517
Contains:Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0017816015000528