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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Christianity"”.
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A rhetorical history of race relations in the early Pentecostal movement, 1906-1916.
… sense of interracial unity, unprecedented within American Christianity and unique for its time. This rhetorical history documents how this counter-cultural racial integration was nurtured rhetorically in the early revival and how the message of interracial unity was soon eclipsed by other …
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If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas
… Gafney’s work has asked the tough questions of Christianity, and bravely tackled taboo topics like sexuality, abuse, and racism. Their aim has been to interrogate whose voices have not been present in popular Christian discourse, and the historical context that has led to such silencing. Thus, …
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The Ministry of Dan Kimball: A Model for Reaching Emerging Generations
… with an examination of the landscape of North American Christianity, seeking to demonstrate that the church is struggling to reach and retain emerging generations. It establishes the need for exploring effective ministry models and presents Kimball's ministry as a possible model for effective …
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Broadcasting the Faith: Protestant Religious Radio and Theology in America, 1920-1950
… their programs to counter the secularization of American culture. Ultimately, however, their programs contributed to secularization by accelerating changes already evident in both the conservative and liberal streams of American Christianity. To reach a vast American audience, radio preachers …
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Educating for faithful pluralism
… pluralism commonly found among contemporary American Christians: 1) seeking to defend the historic Christian faith and dominate the cultural and political spheres; 2) pursuing relevance to the broader culture yet at the potential cost of assimilating and losing their distinctiveness; or 3) …
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The Ethics of Knowing: Epistemic Virtue at an Ex-literalist Church in Nashville
… schismatic denominationalism characteristic of American Protestantism, considering such discord a hindrance both to Christians’ own salvation and to global evangelization. They sought to unite all Christians around an “objective method” for acquiring biblical knowledge; there ought to be “no …