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Molly Worthen<\/a>, author most recently of\u00a0<\/span>Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism\u00a0<\/i><\/a>(Oxford University Press, 2013), spoke with Ray Haberski about the ideas that moved a variety of evangelicals in America over the last seventy years.\u00a0 Worthen argues that attentive observers of American evangelical history must contend with the imagination as much as the mind when considering how evangelicals have \u201cnavigated the upheavals in modern American culture and global Christianity.\u201d\u00a0 Expertly weaving the intellectual and religious histories of institutions and movements with the biographies of specific people, Worthen provides a rigorous and fluid analysis of a much maligned and often misunderstood category of American religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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