A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

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Liberalism and
Neo-Orthodoxy
In chapters 1-5 we have traced the most significant
development within Christianity in the twentieth century,
as measured both by theological innovation (or restoration)
and by numerical growth. In the early part of the
century, however, the Pentecostals were a very small segment
of Protestantism that had sprouted from Holiness
groups that in turn had separated from Methodism. In
this chapter and the next, we will look at the developments
within mainline Protestantism. Due to space limitations,
we can only present a brief overview of various
theologies and cite some representative examples.
The most important development within mainline
Protestantism was Liberalism, also known as Modernism,
and the reactions to it. Liberalism was a continuation of a
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