Rise of Liberalism: Christianity in America with Stephen Nichols

Summary

The sermon discusses the impact of the frontier and Jacksonian democracy on American Christianity, leading to a rise in religious populism and a shift away from established denominations towards Methodism and Baptists. This era saw a move towards "Biblicism" and away from formal confessions, laying groundwork for liberalism's accommodation to modernism. The takeaway is understanding this historical impulse towards expressiveness and individualism within American Christianity.