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6 unusual facts about Liberal Christianity


Arthur Drews

Drews did become an acerbic critic of what he called the "faulty historical method" of academic liberal theologians.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fosdick became a central figure in the "Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920's and 1930's and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th Century.

International Lutheran Council

It is to be distinguished from the larger Lutheran World Federation, which is an association of the more theologically moderate to liberal Lutheran churches, all of which are in full communion with one another as a condition of membership.

Jakob Frohschammer

Meanwhile he had, in 1862, founded the Athenum as the organ of Liberal Catholicism.

Liberal Christianity

Michael Dowd (b. 1958) Religious Naturalist theologian, evidential evangelist, and promoter of Big History and the Epic of Evolution.

Redemptive-historical preaching

Vos was instrumental in taking the discipline of biblical theology in a more conservative direction, using it to vindicate the Reformed faith and historic Christianity over against theological liberalism.


Edwards v. Aguillard

Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.

The Briefing

Various articles in the second half of 2006 and the early part of 2007 have examined liberal theology, Catholicism and Hillsong.


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