Liberalism and the modern mind produced a profound effect upon church culture as it was manifested at the turn of the 20th century. The impact of liberalism and many of the concerns of modern man from this epoch also greatly affect the perception of church culture and Christianity today. The effect of liberalism on the church at this time is important, because it occurred when "Western missionary expansion" (Noll, 2012, p. 263) was becoming a global phenomenon. Protestant Liberalism largely arose from the need of Christians to contend with some of the most pressing issues of the late 1800's and early 1900's, which included various aspects of science and history, and zeitgeists such as Romanticism. A close look at the various ramifications of these concerns reveals that liberalism and the modern mind ultimately was responsible for a reshaping of values within the Christian Church, in which orthodox principles were readily displaced with a greater valuation for Christian experience. The scientific principle most closely associated with Protestant Liberalism was the growing evolutionary movement which became largely popularized due to the work of Charles Darwin. The central way in which this science relates to Christianity is that it effectively replaces the notion of a divine creator with the tenet that existence is achieved through an evolutionary process in which slow transformations start small and grow over time. Those who embraced orthodox views of Christianity believed that such a principle was contradictory to faith in God. Many Protestant Liberals, however, incorporated this principle into their faith as a way of modernizing Christianity and making it more accountable to some of the modern concepts...
44). Instead of rejecting Darwin and other propagators of evolutionary theory, these liberals believed that such an idea was simply a way for God to enlighten his believers more about his true nature (Shelley, 2008, p. 397) and that of the world itself. In this way, science helped to shift the values of Christianity from a mere belief in notions (such as faith) that were already established to one which involved the notions of reason that were gaining traction at that time.
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