Alan Wolfe

The coming religious peace

Of all America's religious traditions, the author writes, evangelical Protestantism, at least in the twentieth-century conservative forms, has long ranked "dead last in intellectual stature." Now evangelical thinkers are trying to revitalize their tradition. Can they turn an intellectual backwater into an intellectual beacon?

She helped to change not only the thinking but the lives of many American women, but recent books throw into question the intellectual and personal sources of her work.