Description: Acknowledgments 1. Modern Religion and Irony Part One: The Modernists 2. A Cosmopolitan Habit in Theology 3. A Religious Spirit of the Age 4. Only Trying to Save the Bible Part Two: The Moderns 5. The Progressives and the Past 6. The Right to Believe 7. In Search of an Ecclesia Part Three: Modernity 8. Peoplehood as a Cocoon Reservation and the Tribal Native American Segregation and the Separate, Not Equal, Blacks Exclusion and the Asians The Hispanics: "As Loyal As Any Other Americans" "The Jews Don't Want to Merge" Orthodoxy: Primitive, Pure, and Chaste "I Am an American Catholic Citizen" 9. Denomination as a Canopy The Frontier Churches after the Frontier The Lutherans and Their Languages Mainstream Catholic Programs Part Four: Countermodernism 10. Conservative Catholicism and Judaism 11. The Carapaces of Reactive Protestantism The Hard Line in the New Evangelism A Competitive Philosophy of History: Premillennialism The Protective Weapon of Biblical Inerrancy Pentecostalism: "Almost Imcomprehensible at This Day" Part Five: The Transmodern 12. Restitutio ad Integrum: The Schism in the Soul 13. The Sin of Schism and the Reunion of the Churches 14. Social Christianity as a Recovered Wholeness 15. The Nation: Beyond Divisions, One Cause Conclusion: On Ironic Interpretation Notes Index

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