What is it about?
This essay explains how liberal Protestants turned to Catholicism to help fight what they saw as aggressive and destructive secularism.
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Why is it important?
To much writing on liberal Protestantism in the twentieth century has focused exclusively on Reinhold Niebuhr. This essay recovers other voices and leaders of the movement.
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This essay is an important updating, clarification, and ultimately introduction to my 2012 book, The Right of the Protestant Left: God's Totalitarianism.
Dr Mark Thomas Edwards
Spring Arbor University
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This page is a summary of: Can Christianity Save Civilisation?: Liberal Protestant Anti-Secularism in Interwar America, Journal of Religious History, July 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12126.
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