he national period of American church history. Religious change in New England : theological divisions within Congregationalism ; The Second Great Awakening, the rise of seminaries, and the Protestant missionary movement ; Charles Finney and Finneyism ; The rise of utopian societies and the classic American cults ; The antebellum and Civil War eras -- The modern period of American church history. The background : the rise of nineteenth-century European liberalism ; The rise of American liberalism : the "new theology" ; Denominational strife and the rise of evangelicalism (1880-1930) ; Evangelicalism's triumph, evangelicalism today (1930-present) ; The American liberal impulse in the twentieth century ; The ecumenical movement in America ; Controversies within mainline denominations and their current state ; Select important evangelical groups in America today ; The state of Roman Catholicism in America ; The African-American church ; The charismatic movements in America -- The postmodern period of American church history.

Charts of Modern and Postmodern Church History provides a visual tool for understanding the historic foundations on which contemporary Christianity rests. From geography, to theology, to doctrines both orthodox and heretical, to key figures and movements over the last three hundred years, the broad comprehensive scope of modern church history comes across.

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