Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: A Documentary Reader

by Barry Hankins

Overview

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 century.
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 editor's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814737163
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Barry Hankins is Professor of History at Baylor University. He is the author of American Evangelicals; Uneasy in Babylon; God's Rascal; The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists; and the forthcoming biography Francis Schaeffer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Bible and Evangelism
2 The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
3 Dispensational Premillennialism
4 Evangelicals and Evolution before Scopes
5 Evangelicals and Science after Scopes
6 Evangelicals and Politics before 1980
7 Evangelicals and Politics since 1980
8 Social Positions: Gender and Race
9 Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Catholics
Notes
Index
About the Author

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A 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."

-William Vance Trollinger,author of God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism

"Scholars, students and the general reading public have long needed a book like this one. Its judicious selections, helpful introductions, and intelligent arrangement open up a history that has been too often obscured by partisanship and sloppy reporting."

-Mark Noll,University of Notre Dame

"Succinctly highlights issues that Christian Evangelicals and Fundamentalists are historically known for."
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"Barry Hankins has assembled an accessible, well-organized volume of primary documents that will help the student of American religion interpret the core tenets of American fundamentalist Christianity."-Louisiana History

Editorial Reviews

"Barry Hankins has assembled an accessible, well-organized volume of primary documents that willhelp the student of American religion interpret the core tenets of American fundamentalist Christianity."

Louisiana History

”Scholars, students and the general reading public have long needed a book like this one. Its judicious selections, helpful introductions, and intelligent arrangement open up a history that has been too often obscured by partisanship and sloppy reporting.”

-Mark Noll,University of Notre Dame


"Barry Hankins has assembled an accessible, well-organized volume of primary documents that will help the student of American religion interpret the core tenets of American fundamentalist Christianity."-Louisiana History

From the Publisher

"A 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."

William Vance Trollinger

"Scholars, students and the general reading public have long needed a book like this one. Its judicious selections, helpful introductions, and intelligent arrangement open up a history that has been too often obscured by partisanship and sloppy reporting."

Mark Noll