Horace Bushnell is associated with which idea? A. religious liberalism B. religious fundamentalism C. religious intolerance D. religious liberty



Answer :

Horace Bushnell is associated with religious liberalism. He freed mainstream Protestant theology from its Puritan scholasticism and established the basis for religious liberalism!

The correct option is A

Horace Bushnell was an American congregational minister and theologian. He criticized the prevailing conceptions of the Trinity, the atonement, the conversion, and the relations of the natural and the supernatural. Above all, he broke with the prevailing view that theology was regarded as essentially intellectual in its attractiveness and demonstrable by processes of exact logical deduction.

  • He virtually opposed revivalism and effectively directed the flow of Christian thought toward the young.
  • He endeavored to elevate the natural to the supernatural by emphasizing the supernatural nature of man.
  • Development of the moral vision of atonement as opposed to governmental and penal theories or satisfaction