Fundamentalism And American Culture : The Shaping of Twentieth-century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925

Oxford University Press, January 2006. Paper Back. Very Good. Surely one of the finest studies of fundamentalism, a crucial dimension of the American religious character. This book explores the movement's roots in Baconian ''common-sense philosophy,'' the explosion of revivalism under D.L. Moody and others, the cultural implications of dispensationalism in its various forms, the rise of liberalism and the counterattack of classical fundamentalism with the publication of <i>The Fundamentals</i> in the 1920's, G. Gresham Machen and the battle over the nature of the Christian presence at Princeton, the Scopes trial and its aftermath, and much more. Our sense of where the battle lines in American Christianity are drawn can be found in the half- century under examination here. Owner name inside, a crisp unread copy, contents pristine.