The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity 1900-1950In this book, the second of his three volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological liberalism effected a creative blending of theological schools, featured a tension between its evangelical and modernist impulses, and was fueled by its expectation of social and cultural progress, until its