Fundamentalism and EvangelicalsThis study examines the contentious claim that much evangelicalism is fundamentalist in character. Within Protestantism, the term `fundamentalism' denotes not only a movement but also a mentality which has greatly affected evangelicals, and which involves preserving as factual a reading of scripture as possible. Here the development and dismantling of the fundamentalist mentality is examined in light of philosophical influences upon evangelicalism over the last three centuries, notably: Common Sense Realism, neo-Calvinism, and modern hermeneutical philosophy. Particular attention is paid to James Barr's critique of fundamentalism and to evangelical rejoinders. Harriet A. Harris proposes that the fundamentalist mentality does not do justice to evangelical experience since it is more concerned with the Bible's factual truthfulness than with its life-giving effects. An appendix on Global Fundamentalism brings together two rarely united fields of study: Protestant fundamentalism's relation to evangelicalism, and its relation to resurgent movements in other religions. |
Contents
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A Historical Approach | 19 |
A British Critique | 57 |
Its Philosophical Roots | 94 |
4 The Fundamentalist Mentality Among Evangelicals | 131 |
5 Fundamentalist Apologetics and Evangelical Experience | 180 |
6 The Dutch Influence | 205 |
7 Kuyperians and Warfieldians | 233 |
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