Reforming Fundamentalism : Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism.

by George M. Marsden

Hardcover, 1987

Call number

BT82.2.M38 1987; RL 084.

Publication

Grand Rapids, MI : Wm. B. Eerdmans.

Physical description

xiii, 319 p.; 24 cm

Notes

From the Preface (p. x):
"The present work is not a conventional institutional history that attempts to "cover" whatever happened during a certain time. Rather, it is a narrative built around the theme of Fuller Seminary's leading role in the original new evangelical (or neo-evangelical) attempt to reform fundamentalism. This story, which I hope will be as engaging to read as it was to write, carries us from before the founding of the seminary in 1947 to about 1967 or 1968. Just about that time a number of the principle characters passed from the stage and the original new evangelicalism began both to seem old and to fragment."

CONTENTS
Preface: The Shaping of a History.
Abbreviations Used in the Notes.
Introduction: Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and New Evangelicals.

I. Fundamentalist Stars.

II. The History before the History.

III. Rebuilding Western Civilization.

IV. Redefining the Fundamentalist Mission.

V. Evangelism.

VI. The Legacy of Fundamentalist Militancy.

VII. 1950-1964: Amid the Fundamentalist Ethos.

VIII. The Perils of New Departures.

IX. The New Evangelicalism.

X. The Tensions of the New Evangelical.

XI. The Crisis and the Turning.

XII. The Changing of the Guard.

XIII. End of an Era.

Epilogue: The Mega-Seminary.
Sequel: The Last Battle with Fundamentalism.
Appendix: How Evangelicalism Has Changed.
Index.

Barcode

020a168000

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