The Rise and Fall of Liberal Protestantism in America

by David R. Carlin

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2022

When I speak of liberal Protestants, I have in mind those Protestants who feel free to depart from classical Protestantism (the Protestantism of the Reformers) in order, as they see it, to keep Christianity in step with the best of secular wisdom--a secular wisdom that often includes attacks on Christianity. Over the past 250 years there have been three great attacks on Christianity: deism, agnosticism, and the sexual revolution. And so, beginning with Unitarianism more than 200 years ago, liberal Protestantism has adjusted to these attacks by dropping more and more of traditional Christian doctrine, until today the more advanced liberal Protestants are only barely distinguishable from atheists.

Product Details

• Title: The Rise and Fall of Liberal Protestantism in America
• Author: David R. Carlin
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666795103, 9781666795097, 9781666736571, 1666795100, 1666795097, 1666736570
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666795103
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-11T20:38:48Z

About the Author

David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island. He is the author of The Decline and Fall of Catholicism in America.