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Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism: A Review

ngelicalism.ö He begins here, naturally, by offering some definitions:

[A]n American fundamentalist is an evangelical who is militant in opposition to liberal theology in the churches or to changes in cultural values . . . [They] are not just religious conservatives, they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight (Marsden 1).

This definition, of course, requires another. He states that ôEvangelicalö became the common name for the revival movements that swept through the English-speaking world and elsewhere during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and whose style of preaching largely shaped American Protestantism. After the evolution and schisms described in his first two chapters, Marsden offers the following definition:

[E]vangelicalism today includes any Christians traditional enough to affirm the basic beliefs of the old nineteenth-century evangelical consensus . . . [which] include (1) the Reformation doctrine of the final authority of the Bible, (2) the real historical char

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