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Matthew Bowman explores the world of a neglected group of American Christians: the self-identified liberal evangelicals who began in late nineteenth-century New York to reconcile traditional evangelical spirituality with progressive views on social activism and theological questions. These evangelicals emphasized the importance of supernatural conversion experience, but also argued that scientific advances, new movements in art, and the decline in poverty created by a new industrial economy could facilitate encounters with Christ.

The Urban Pulpit chronicles the struggle of liberal evangelicals against conservative Protestants who questioned their theological sincerity and against secular reformers who grew increasingly devoted to the cause of cultural pluralism and increasingly suspicious of evangelicals over the course of the twentieth century. Liberal evangelicals walked a difficult path, facing increasing polarization in twentieth-century American public life; both conservative evangelicals and secular reformers insisted that religion and science were necessarily at odds and that evangelical Christianity was incompatible with cultural diversity. Liberal evangelicals rejected these simple dichotomies, but nonetheless found it increasingly difficult to defend their middle way.

Drawing on history, anthropology, and religious studies, Bowman paints a complex portrait of these understudied Christians at work, at worship, and engaged in advocacy in the public square.

About the Author:
Matthew Bowman received his PhD in American history from Georgetown University in 2011, and is the author of The Mormon People: The Making of An American Faith (2012). He teaches religion at Hampden Sydney College.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780199977604
  • Publisher: OUP US
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP Us
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 675 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199977607
  • Publisher Date: 04 Mar 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism
  • Width: 155 mm


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