Editing Progressive Christianity (section)

{{Short description|Postmodern theological approach}}
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'''Progressive Christianity''' represents a range of related perspectives in contemporary Christian theology and practice. It is a [[postmodern theological]] approach, which developed out of the [[liberal Christianity]] of the [[modern era]],<ref name="Wolsey 2012" /> although progressive Christians would claim that ideas relating Christianity to [[social justice]] are at the heart of the Christian message and stem from biblical themes. Integrating and moving beyond the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] concerns of liberalism, Progressive Christianity is a [[postliberal theological]] movement that, in the words of Reverend Roger Wolsey, "seeks to reform the faith via the insights of post-modernism and a reclaiming of the truth beyond the verifiable historicity and factuality of the passages in the Bible by affirming the truths within the stories that may not have actually happened."<ref name="Wolsey 2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-roger-wolsey/progressive-christianity-isnt-progressive-politics_b_1897381.html|title=Progressive Christianity Isn't Progressive Politics|last=Wolsey|first=Roger|date=10 February 2012|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>

Progressive Christianity, as described by its adherents, is characterized by a willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity, a strong emphasis on [[social justice]] and care for the poor and the oppressed, and environmental stewardship of the earth. Progressive Christians have a deep belief in the centrality of the instruction to "[[love one another]]" (John 15:17) within the teachings of [[Jesus in Christianity|Jesus Christ]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Soul Play: What Is Progressive Christianity Exactly?|url=http://www.flipsidepress.org/content/soul-play%3A-what-progressive-christianity-exactly%3F|work=The Flip Side|publisher=University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire|access-date=23 December 2012}}{{dead link|date=July 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> It is largely a western, Anglosphere movement, with ecumenical and cross-denominational currents and influences. It is particularly influential in [[mainline Protestantism]], with some influence among [[Liberal Catholicism|liberal]] and Post-[[Vatican II]] Roman Catholicism (especially those influenced by movements such as [[liberation theology]]), and American evangelicalism, particularly the [[emerging Church]] and [[exvangelical]] movements, and the [[evangelical left]].

{{Historical Christian theology}}