Youre watching book tv on cspan2. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. The university of north carolinas mary worthen sat down with book tv to discuss her book apostles of reason the crisis of authority in american evangelicalism. This halfhour interview as part of book tv college series. Host mary worthen is a history professor. What courses do you teach . Guest i teach a big survey course on the history of religion in north america, a course on modern American Intellectual history. One of the most fun is called sin and evil in modern america, a Small Research seminar. You can imagine the kind of things students get into. Host you are also the author of this book, apostles of reason the crisis of authority in american evangelicalism. What is evangelicalism . Guest that is a great question. Any scholar or observer tries to explain what is going on in modern american politics and religion has to contend with this slippery term. Some scholars have tried to define evangelicalism in
Host you are also the author of this book, apostles of reason the crisis of authority in american evangelicalism. What isval po has to contend with this tour ran some scholars haver tried to evangelicalism asset checklist of shared doctrine of of bornagain conversion experience bohaiin view of the authority of the bible and that is helpful but i was trying to find a definition to allow me to crawl and to speak pentecost goals and to agree on a list of doctrines as the set of shared questions of. I found myself focusing on the questions rather than the answers. Host to have to bebi conservative to bet al evangelical . Guest not politically i use a loosely but to invest in the traditional orientation for the authority a of the up by paul. And wrestling with three Major Concerns or anxieties with the transition. The first is how you keep faith and reason joint as one way to unify the world. The second is to cultivate a relationship with the defined. And how you reconcile your own personal