aA great service for all of us who teach undergraduate and graduate
courses in U.S. religious history. This fine historian has provided
us with a representative collection of primary texts, in the
process allowing our students the opportunity to encounter the
diversity of evangelicals and evangelical ideas in
twentieth-century America.a
--William Vance Trollinger, author of "Godas Empire: William Bell
Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism"
Evangelicalism retains the doctrine of biblical authority that
developed during the Protestant Reformation as well as the sense
that each individual stands in need of a life transforming
experience of forgiveness of sins that can only come through faith
in Christ.
With the rise of the Christian Right in American politics over
the past quarter-century, there has been renewed interest in
Protestant evangelicalism and fundamentalism and their roles in
American culture. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism is a collection
of key primary readings tracing the history and development of this
religious movement and its intersections with American life and
politics, spanning the late nineteenth century to the early
twenty-first centuries.
The documents deal with issues such as biblical criticism,
theology, revivalist preaching, religion and science, religion and
politics, and social concerns such as gender and race. Countering
notions among some that evangelicalism is monolithic, the diversity
of the movement is made evident in texts from the evangelical left
as well as the Christian Right.
Each section and many individual texts are prefaced by a brief
editoras introduction explaining their background and context.
During the period the book covers, evangelicalism went from being
the dominant form of religion in America, then to the fringes, then
back into the mainstream. These texts provide the reader with a
sense of the central core as well as the range of evangelical
thinking in the past century.
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