The Wine of the Gospel and "American Bottles": Attitude of Protestant Elite towards the Post-World War II Revival in the United States

The article studies the attitude of the Protestant clerical and intellectual elite towards the religious situation in the United States in the late 1940s-1950s. This period is usually considered as the epoch of revival of religiosity in the American society. Representatives of major Protestant denominations in the United States as well as outside of the country often expressed suspicious or negative view of many aspects of the postwar revival. The author analyzes this attitude using the example of publications in the Protestant periodical "Christianity and Crisis" and shows contradictions inside Protestant establishment as well as inside separate denominations regarding the appraisal of the trends in religious life.