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The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline offers the first full-length, critical study of The Christian Century, widely regarded as the most influential religious magazine in America for most of the twentieth century and hailed by Time as Protestantism's most vigorous voice.  · The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline offers the first full-length, critical study of The Christian Century, widely regarded as 2/5(1).  · Anyone who is interested in this story needs to know about The Christian Century, one of the greatest national Protestant conversation starters of the twentieth century. Elesha Coffman has written a sensitive and often witty account of The Century's first half-century, and it has much to tell us about the rise and decline of mainline Protestantism." — Joel Carpenter, Professor of History and Brand: Oxford University Press.

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The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline Elesha J. Coffman. The first full-length, critical study of The Christian Century, which is widely regarded as the most influential religious magazine in America for most of the twentieth century. Argues controversially that mainline religion was never really mainstream in America. The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline. Elesha J. Coffman. Published by Oxford University Press in pp / $$ / Amazon. More. In , an obscure Disciples of Christ periodical moved its offices from Iowa to Chicago, and in it renamed itself The Christian Century. By the late s, this magazine had become the most respected Protestant opinion weekly in America, and the tradition for which it spoke—eventually called the mainline—had established itself as the nation’s dominant religion.