Sentences with phrase «established nonbelief»

What had begun as «Protestant establishment» ended as «established nonbelief.»

• We note with pleasure the appearance of George Marsden's The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (Oxford).

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.