Reforming Fundamentalism by George M Marsden

Reforming Fundamentalism by George M Marsden

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The best telling of the story of the past, writes George Marsden, relies on a balance of the general and the particular. In this book, a sequel and companion to his widely acclaimed Fundamentalism and American Culture (Oxford, 1980), Marsden uses the history of Fuller Theological Seminary -- a durable evangelical institution -- as a lens through which to focus an examination of the broader story of evangelicalism and fundamentalism since the 1940s.

In fact, at the time of the school's founding in 1947, evangelicalism and fundamentalism were not considered separate entities. Though Fuller Seminary later became so thoroughly identified with the new evangelicalism (or neo- evangelicalism) that its fundamentalist roots are sometimes overlooked, in the school's early years it was in striking ways a fundamentalist institution with a thoroughly fundamentalist constituency.

Marsden's detailed history relies heavily on primary sources: personal recollections and correspondence of the seminary's founders, and discussions with students and staff from throughout the seminary's history. Although the story of Fuller Seminary provides the framework for this fascinating look at a segment of American religious history, Marsden's careful and knowledgeable attention to the surrounding worlds of mainline denominations and stricter fundamentalism makes this book a major contribution to the study of a movement that has played an important role in shaping American culture.

George M. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus at Notre Dame, where he taught from 1992-2008. He has taught history at Calvin College and the history of Christianity in America at The Divinity School of Duke University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, St. Andrews University, and Harvard Divinity School. Marsden is the author of many books, including Fundamentalism and American Culture, The Soul of the American University, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, and Jonathan Edwards: A Life.

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ISBN 13	9780802836427
ISBN 10	0802836429
Title	Reforming Fundamentalism
Author	George M Marsden
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Year published	1988-02-01
Number of pages	332
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