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Protestant Liberalism

Houghton, Walter E.  “The Issue Between Kingsley and Newman,” Theology Today Vol. IV (April 1947): 81-101. Houghton argues that the fundamental disagreement between Kingsley and Newman was the elemental dichotomy between Protestant Liberalism and Christian Orthodoxy. Though in many respects a conservative and a public enemy of those espousing the liberal cause, in religion Kingsley followed the liberalism of the likes of Maurice and Carlyle.  While we read such thinkers to understand liberal ideology, argues Houghton, we study Kingsley to comprehend Protestant Liberalism in its actual practice.  Catholicism ; Newman Controversy ; Newman, John Henry ; Religion ; Protestant Liberalism .