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'''Liberal Christianity''' or '''Modernism''' refers to a movement within American Protestant denominations to stress the social role of Christianity, as in the [[Social Gospel]] of the early 20th century. It stressed a basic continuity between man and God--stressing the imminance of God rather than the transcendance. It saw mankind as inherently perfectable, and called on Christians to speed up that perfection by rooting out social evils and immorality, such as drunkenness and abject poverty. It saw religious knowledge emerging from research and the use of reason. Thaus the liberal emphasis is on religion as a personal relationship with Christ, rather than a set of orthodox theological beliefs.  The spirit of the Bible mattered greatly, but not the specific wording.  The approach dominated most Protestant denominations until it was challenged by [[Neo Orthodoxy]] and [[Fundamentalism]] after 1940.

'''Liberal Christianity''' or '''[[Modernism]]''' refers to a movement within American Protestant denominations to stress the social role of Christianity, as in the [[Social Gospel]] of the early 20th century. It stressed a basic continuity between man and God--stressing the imminance of God rather than the transcendance. It saw mankind as inherently perfectable, and called on Christians to speed up that perfection by rooting out social evils and immorality, such as drunkenness and abject poverty. It saw religious knowledge emerging from research and the use of reason. Thaus the liberal emphasis is on religion as a personal relationship with Christ, rather than a set of orthodox theological beliefs.  The spirit of the Bible mattered greatly, but not the specific wording.  The approach dominated most Protestant denominations until it was challenged by [[Neo Orthodoxy]] and [[Fundamentalism]] after 1940.

===Origins of liberal Christianity===

===Origins of liberal Christianity===