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This authoritative volume offers the fullest account to date of Christian fundamentalism, its origins in the nineteenth century, and its development up to the present day. It looks at the movement in global terms and through a number of key subjects and debates in which it is actively engaged.
List of contents
- Contributors
- 1: Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones: Defining and Interpreting Christian Fundamentalism
- I: Historical Developments
- 2: Geoffrey R. Treloar: The Fundamentals
- 3: Josh McMullen: Big Tent Revivalism
- 4: Thomas Breimaier: A Fundamentalist Forerunner? C. H. Spurgeon and the Downgrade Controversy
- 5: Constance Areson Clark: The Scopes Trial
- 6: D. G. Hart: Princeton and Fundamentalism
- 7: Andrew R. Holmes: Fundamentalism in Interwar Northern Ireland
- 8: Gerald W. King: Fundamentalism and Early Pentecostalism
- 9: Elesha J. Coffman and Regina Wenger: Billy Graham, Fundamentalism and Neo-Evangelicalism
- 10: John Maiden: Fundamentalism and Charismatic Renewal
- 11: Andrew Christopher Smith: The Southern Baptist Convention
- 12: Amber Thomas Reynolds: Fundamentalist Magazine Publishing
- II: Fundamentalist Convictions
- 13: Paul C. Gutjahr: Biblical Inerrancy and Higher Criticism
- 14: Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.: Creationism
- 15: Sean McGever: Conversion
- 16: Tom Schwanda: The Devotional Life of Fundamentalism
- 17: Markku Ruotsila: Ecumenism and Separatism
- 18: David Ceri Jones: Salvation and the 'Social Gospel'
- 19: Martin Spence: The End Times
- III: Fundamentalism and Personal Morality
- 20: Milton Gaither: Education in Home and School
- 21: Adam Laats: Higher Education
- 22: Joe Coker: Alcohol
- 23: Shawn David Young: Popular Music
- 24: Paul Emory Putz: Sport
- 25: Emily S. Johnson: Family and Gender
- 26: Suzanna Krivulskaya: Sex and Sexuality
- 27: Andrew R. Lewis: Abortion
- IV: Fundamentalism and the 'World'
- 28: Brian Stanley: Global Mission
- 29: Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews: Race and Civil Rights
- 30: Darren Dochuk: Class
- 31: Darren E. Grem: Business
- 32: Daniel K. Williams: The Christian Right
- 33: Brantley W. Gasaway: The Environment
- 34: Daniel G. Hummel: Israel and the Middle East
- 35: Christopher Douglas: Literature
- 36: Robert Glenn Howard and Megan L. Zahay: From the Television Age to the Digital Revolution
- V: Fundamentalist Futures
- 37: Andrew Atherstone: Escaping Fundamentalism
- 38: Mark P. Hutchinson: Globalized Fundamentalism
- Index
About the author
Andrew Atherstone is Latimer Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and a member of Oxford University's Faculty of Theology and Religion. His recent books include Repackaging Christianity: Alpha and the Building of a Global Brand (2022) and, as co-editor, Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950-2000 (2021). His research focuses on evangelicalism and Anglicanism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
David Ceri Jones is Reader in Early Modern History at Aberystwyth University and a native of Port Talbot. His most recent books include, as co-author, A History of Christianity in Wales (2022), and as co-editor, George Whitefield: Life, Context and Legacy (2016). He is currently working of a multi-volume edition of the letters of George Whitefield, and a new history of evangelicalism in modern and contemporary Wales.
Summary
This authoritative volume offers the fullest account to date of Christian fundamentalism, its origins in the nineteenth century, and its development up to the present day. It looks at the movement in global terms and through a number of key subjects and debates in which it is actively engaged.
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A thorough and multifaceted overview for anyone interested in historical and nowadays Christian fundamentalism.
