The Search for a Plural America: Protestant and Enlightenment Authority in American History

Andrew Finstuen

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Abstract

A crisis of authority defines modernity. The crisis in the Christian West dates to the Reformation and the church-and-state conflicts based upon the question: whose Christianity? The crisis deepened during the Enlightenment as advances in science, reason, and technology changed the question: Christianity or not? By the 1960s, post-structuralism or postmodernity had posed the very question of authority and asserted competing authorities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)144-155
Number of pages12
JournalHarvard Theological Review
Volume109
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Jan 2016

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