The Methodology of the Modernists: Process in American Protestantism

Scholarship on early-twentieth-century American Protestant modernism appears to have arrived at an impasse. Although scholars continue to explore the biographical contours of modernist individuals, and theologians still review the capacity of modernist theologies, the body of analytical scholarship...

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Main Author: Lofton, Kathryn (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
In: Church history
Year: 2006, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 374-402
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