History Department      

History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – November 18, 2005  

Protestantism in the Mid-20th Century  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. Interchurch World Movement
  2. “Prophets of the moral revolt”
  3. Amzi Dixon
  4. Billy Sunday
  5. Harry Emerson Fosdick
  6. Bruce Barton
  7. Guy Ballard’s “I AM” movement
  8. George Coe, “Social Theory of Religious Education”
  9. Frank Buchman
  10. Karl Barth
  11. Reinhold Niebuhr
  12. 1950s “revival”
  13. Billy Graham
  14. Norman Vincent Peale
  15. Martin Luther King, Jr.

QUESTIONS:  

  1. If you drew a graph of American religious activity from, say, 1900 – 1960, what would it look like?  Where would the line go up?  Go down?
  2. Around 1920, the huge battle within Protestant Christianity was between “Fundamentalists” and “Modernists” – what happens to each by, say, the 1930s?  What happens to each by, say, 1960?

 

 

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