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Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Historians have sometimes argued, and popular discourse certainly
assumes, that evangelicalism and fundamentalism are identical. In
the twenty-first century, when Islamic fundamentalism is at the
centre of the world's attention, whether or not evangelicalism
should be seen as the Christian version of fundamentalism is an
important matter for public understanding. The essays that make up
this book analyse this central question. Drawing on empirical
evidence from many parts of the United Kingdom and from across the
course of the twentieth century, the essays show that
fundamentalism certainly existed in Britain, that evangelicals did
sometimes show tendencies in a fundamentalist direction, but that
evangelicalism in Britain cannot simply be equated with
fundamentalism. The evangelical movement within Protestantism that
arose in the wake of the eighteenth-century revival exerted an
immense influence on British society over the two subsequent
centuries. Christian fundamentalism, by contrast, had its origins
in the United States following the publication of The Fundamentals,
a series of pamphlets issued to ministers between 1910 and 1915
that was funded by California oilmen. While there was considerable
British participation in writing the series, the term
'fundamentalist' was invented in an exclusively American context
when, in 1920, it was coined to describe the conservative critics
of theological liberalism. The fundamentalists in Britain formed
only a small section of evangelical opinion that declined over
time.
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