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''The Christian Century'' is a Christian magazine based in Chicago, Illinois. Considered the flagship magazine of U.S. mainline Protestantism,〔Gary B. Bullert, "(Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian century: World War II and the eclipse of the social gospel )," ''Journal of Church and State'' 44 () 271-290.〕 the biweekly reports on religious news; comments on theological, moral, and cultural issues; and reviews books, movies, and music. The Century hosts four blogs, written and edited by Drew Hart, Edward J. Blum, Kate Bowler, Carol Howard Merritt, and Steve Thorngate, as well as hosting a network of more than 100 outside bloggers, CCblogs. ''The Christian Century''s current editor and publisher is John M. Buchanan, while David Heim is its executive editor. Rodney Clapp, Philip Jenkins, and Carol Howard Merritt are columnists; other regular contributors include Carol Zaleski, Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Will Willimon. The magazine takes a "liberal" editorial stance.〔Left-wing scholars attack the best-selling 'Da Vinci Code', Richard N. Ostling| Associated Press, July 10, 2004 ()〕 The magazine describes its mission as follows:
The ''Christian Century'' was founded in 1884 as ''The Christian Oracle'' in Des Moines, Iowa as a Disciples of Christ denominational magazine. In 1900, its editor proposed to rename it ''Christian Century'' in response to the great optimism of many Christians at the turn of the 20th century that "genuine Christian faith could live in mutual harmony with the modern developments in science, technology, immigration, communication and culture that were already under way." Around this same time, the Century's offices moved to Chicago. The magazine did not receive widespread support in its denomination and was sold in a mortgage foreclosure in 1908. It was purchased by Charles Clayton Morrison, who soon labeled the magazine nondenominational. Morrison became a highly influential spokesman for liberal Christianity, advocating higher criticism of the Bible, as well as the Social Gospel, which included concerns about child labor, women's suffrage, racism, war and pacifism, alcoholism and prohibition, environmentalism and many other political and social issues. The magazine was a common target for criticism by fundamentalists during the Fundamentalist - Modernist debate of the early 20th century. During the Second World War, the magazine helped provide a venue for promotion of ideas by Christian activists who opposed the Japanese-American internment. Critiques of the internment policy, by writers such as Galen Fisher appeared, regularly in the Century, and helped bring awareness to the situation. In 1956 the magazine was challenged by the establishment of the evangelical ''Christianity Today'' by Carl F. H. Henry, which sought to present a theologically conservative Christian viewpoint, while restoring many social concerns abandoned by fundamentalists. Both magazines continue to flourish, with the ''Christian Century'' remaining the major independent publication within ecumenical, mainline Protestantism. In 2008 both Martin E. Marty and former editor James M. Wall concluded long runs as Century columnists. Other notable writers published by the Century over its long history include Jane Addams, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard John Neuhaus, and Albert Schweitzer. Marty has described the ''Christian Century'' as an "anti-Zionist" publication.〔Modern American Religion: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960, Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 189.〕 == Footnotes == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Christian Century」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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