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en-wikipedia-org-3886		Liberal Christianity - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4711	724	46	Pietism · John Wesley · Great Awakenings · Holiness movement · Restoration Movement · Existentialism · Liberalism (Secular theology · Modernism in the Catholic Church) · Nouvelle théologie · Postliberal Theology · Postmodernism (Radical orthodoxy) · Neo-orthodoxy · Paleo-orthodoxy · Vatican II · Hermeneutics · Liberation theology · Christian anarchism · Christian Feminism (Asian feminist theology) · Queer Theology · Progressive Christianity · Theothanatology · Critical realism · Consequentialism (Situational ethics · Christian hedonism) · Transmodernism · Process theology · Open theism The effort to remove "superstitious" elements from Christian faith dates to intellectually reforming Renaissance Christians such as Erasmus (who compiled the first modern Greek New Testament) in the late 15th and early-to-mid 16th centuries, and, later, the natural-religion view of the Deists, which disavowed any revealed religion or interaction between the Creator and the creation, in the 17–18th centuries.[16] The debate over whether a belief in miracles was mere superstition or essential to accepting the divinity of Christ constituted a crisis within the 19th-century church, for which theological compromises were sought.[17][pages needed] Many liberals prefer to read Jesus' miracles as metaphorical narratives for understanding the power of God.[18][better source needed] Not all theologians with liberal inclinations reject the possibility of miracles, but many reject the polemicism that denial or affirmation entails.[19]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3886.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3886.txt