Overview
The past, present, and future of a movement in crisis
What exactly do we mean when we say āevangelicalā?Ā How should we understand this many-sided world religious phenomenon? How do recent American politics change that understanding?
Three scholars have been vital to our understanding of evangelicalism for the last forty years: Mark Noll, whose Scandal of the Evangelical Mind identified an earlier crisis point for American evangelicals; David Bebbington, whose āBebbington Quadrilateralā remains the standard characterization of evangelicals used worldwide; and George Marsden, author of the groundbreaking Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism. Now, in Evangelicals, they combine key earlier material concerning the history of evangelicalism with their own new contributions about present controversies and also with fresh insights from other scholars. The result begins as a survey of how evangelicalism has been evaluated, but then leads into a discussion of the movementās perils and promise today.Ā
Evangelicals provides an illuminating look at who evangelicals are, how evangelicalism has changed over time, and how evangelicalism continues to develop in sometimes surprising ways.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: One Word but Three CrisesĀ Mark A. Noll
Part I: The History of āEvangelical Historyā
1. The Evangelical DenominationĀ George Marsden
2. The Nature of Evangelical ReligionĀ David Bebbington
3. The Essential Evangelicalism Dialectic: The Historiography of the Early Neo-Evangelical Movement and the Observer-ParticipantDilemmaĀ Douglas A. Sweeney
4. Evangelical Constituencies in North America and the WorldĀ Mark Noll
5. The Evangelical Discovery of HistoryĀ David W. Bebbington
6. Roundtable: Re-examining David Bebbingtonās āQuadrilateral ThesisāĀ Charlie Phillips, Kelly Cross Elliott, Thomas S. Kidd, AmandaPorterfield, Darren Dochuk, Mark A. Noll, Molly Worthen, and David W. Bebbington
7. Evangelicals and Unevangelicals: The Contested History of a WordĀ Linford D. Fisher
Part II: The Current Crisis: Looking Back
8. A Strange Love? Or: How White Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DonaldĀ Michael S. Hamilton
9. Live by the Polls, Die by the PollsĀ D. G. Hart
10. Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical MasculinityĀ Kristin Kobes Du Mez
11. The āWeirdā Fringe Is the Biggest Part of White EvangelicalismĀ Fred Clark
Part III: The Current Crisis: Assessment
12. Is the Term āEvangelicalā Redeemable?Ā Thomas S. Kidd
13. Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump?Ā Timothy Keller
14. How to Escape from Roy Mooreās EvangelicalismĀ Molly Worthen
15. Are Black Christians Evangelicals?Ā Jemar Tisby
16. To Be or Not to Be an EvangelicalĀ Brian C. Stiller
Part IV: Historians Seeking Perspective
17. On Not Mistaking One Part for the Whole: The Future of American Evangelicalism in a Global PerspectiveGeorge Marsden
18. Evangelicals and Recent Politics in BritainĀ David Bebbington
19. World Cup or World Series?Ā Mark Noll
This book title, Evangelicals (Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be), ISBN: 9780802876959, by Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, George M. Marsden, published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (November 25, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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