Tuesdays, Oct. 26, Nov. 2 & 9, 9:30-11 a.m.

The Civil War caused a lot of soul-searching in the U.S., and other events coincided to make the late Nineteenth Century fertile ground for new religions (Christian Science, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witness, and Pentecostalism) and new challenges (the poor in the great cities, leading to Dwight Moody's conservative approach and Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel). Hanging over it all was the growth of conservative theologies, which rejected the Higher Criticism that tried to place the Bible in a historical context and rejected modern science. All this culminated in the "Modernist Controversy" that ended -- or didn't -- in the 1925 Scope's Trial. We live with the consequences of that today. 

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