Introduction
Part I: Knights Inerrant
Chapter 1: War and Worldviews
Chapter 2: The Authority Problem
Chapter 3: Fundamentalist Demons
Chapter 4: Reform and Its Discontents
Part II: To Evangelize the World
Chapter 5: Training Up Soul Winners
Chapter 6: The Modern and Anti-Modern in Missions...
Chapter 7: One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
Part III: Let Them Have Dominion
Chapter 8: The Gospel of Liberation
Chapter 9: Evangelicals' Great Matter
Chapter 10: God's Idea Men
Chapter 11: The Evangelical Imagination at Millennium's End
Molly Worthen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Slate, Christianity Today, and other publications.
"Mary Worthen s Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in
American Evangelicalism is an accessible yet meticulously
researched addition to our understanding of our religious history.
It should be of great interest to scholars of religion and American
culture."--The Journal of American Culture
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evangelicalism and the challenges that have confronted
it."--Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
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Newswriters' Association
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American history and, perhaps more importantly, to make it appear
to matter. Anyone interested in recent American history will profit
from reading Apostles of Reason."--Journal of Southern Religion
"Beautifully written and compellingly argued it should be required
reading for anyone who wants to understand American evangelicalism
or the broader religious tension between head and heart."--American
Historical Review
"[A] remarkable and textured study." --Randall Balmer, The
Christian Century
"Worthen's a beguiling portraitist." --Slate
"Pathbreaking and gracefully narrated." --The Nation
"Apostles of Reason turns intellectual history into page-turning
drama, highlighting the flesh-and-blood personalities behind
academic debates... the most exciting history of evangelical
intellectual life to appear in decades." --Books & Culture
"Lively and story-filled... In locating Christian world view and
biblical inerrancy at the heart of evangelicals' travails, and in
bringing to light myriad little-known personalities, organizations,
campaigns, and quarrels, Worthen has done scholars of
twentieth-century history a great service." --Journal of American
History
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serious approach to understanding the evangelical mind, Apostles of
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"Molly Worthen has written a truly important book. Apostles of
Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism is the
kind of highly ambitious intellectual history that requires
thorough familiarity with the sources, a keen eye for discerning
intellectual undercurrents, a gift for telling a complicated, many
faceted story, and, perhaps most importantly, an editorial aptitude
for weaving it all together." --National Catholic Reporter
"[An] impressively wide-ranging account." --George M. Marsden,
Commonweal
"Apostles of Reason brings a new level of sophistication, as well
as sparkling prose, to the study of modern American evangelicals. A
combination of empathetic understanding and critical acumen makes
this an unusually humane, as well as unusually insightful, book."
--Mark Noll, author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to
Abraham Lincoln
"Molly Worthen's account of the evangelical imagination across the
past seventy years is both sympathetic and critical. She captures
the diversity of American evangelicals, their hopes and anxieties,
and the nuances of their strategies for cultural influence."
--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath
God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
"Ambitious in its analytical breadth, at once incisive and playful
in presentation, and utterly convincing, Molly Worthen's Apostles
of Reason is first-rate in every sense. This is a path-breaking
book about a quintessentially modern movement. Readers of all
persuasions will welcome it." --Darren Dochuk, author of From Bible
Belt to Sunbelt
"Molly Worthen's Apostles of Reason is an important contribution to
the ongoing debate within evangelicalism about how to get along as
a family of churches... Reading Worthen's account of evangelicalism
is a breath of fresh air in many ways." --First Things
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and vigorous, and sparkling with memorable turns of phrase-is worth
the price of admission... It is a singular accomplishment."
--Christian Century
"Apostles of Reason represents a synthetic and interpretive
triumph... It is difficult to overstate how witty her writing is,
which is quite an accomplishment given how potentially dry a study
of evangelical intellectualism could be. Moreover, Worthen grounds
her sparkling prose in impeccable research." --David R. Swartz,
Asbury University, The Mennonite Quarterly Review
"Worthen's telling of this narrative is gripping. It is difficult
to overstate how witty her writing is, which is quite an
acomplishment given how potentially dry a study of evangelical
intellectualism could be. Moreover, Worthen grounds her sparkling
prose in impeccable research." --The Mennonite Quarterly Review
"...Worthen's historical account of American evangelicalism over
the past seven decades is fair, enlightening, and unsettling... I
recommend the book highly especially to evangelicals who desire a
cogent explanation of why evangelicalism still holds
promise--theologically, socially, politically--even though it
remains fractured movement." --Religious Studies Review
"Worthen offers an engaging road map through evangelical thought.
Almost encyclopedic in nature, her book ably captures its richness
and variety- and polarization as well."-- Justus Doenecke, Anglican
and Episcopal History
"Worthen has written a volume that will permanently enrich the
academy's understanding of American evangelicalism, offered up in a
playful, humorous style that her readers will find approachable, if
not entertaining. Any student of American religion will read it
with profit."-- Review & Expositor
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