FUNDAMENTALISTS in the PUBLIC SQUARE
Evolution, Alcohol, and Culture Wars after the Scopes Trial
MADISON TRAMMEL
STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Evolution, Alcohol, and Culture Wars after the Scopes Trial
Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology
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1. Fundamentalist Historiography and the Peculiarity of Interwar Fundamentalism
2. Fundamentalism, Evolution, and Newspaper Reporting (1920–1933)
3. Fundamentalism, Alcohol, and Newspaper Reporting (1920–1933)
4. Fundamentalist Social Action and Dispensationalist Theology
Appendix: Alphabetical Listing of Newspapers
This project started as a dissertation, accompanied by all the pain, uncertainty, and joy common to that endeavor, before settling more comfortably into its current form. Those who shepherded me through the dissertation phase deserve much thanks, especially Jason Duesing and John Woodbridge, my supervisors, who pointed me in the fruitful direction of newspaper studies and offered helpful corrections along the way. Any weaknesses in the book are uniquely mine, of course, and remain despite their best efforts.
I must also acknowledge fellow PhD students in historical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary who both encouraged me and challenged me with the quality of their research and writing. Many of them have since published their own dissertations or other works of scholarship. To name just a few, Jesse Payne, Geoff Chang, Mark Fugitt, Jenny-Lyn de Klerk, Ronni Kurtz, Sam Parkison, and Camden Pulliam, I appreciate your work and am grateful for the opportunity to study alongside you for a time.
Devin Maddox, my director at B&H Publishing, granted me salaried, non-vacation time to complete this book, for which I will forever be grateful. His commitment to fostering a healthy work-life balance for others is both admirable and worthy of imitation.
Finally, I want to thank my wife, Regina, and sons, Asher and Kai, for the good cheer, opinionated conversation, and consistent love and support they bring to our home. May ...
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About Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Evolution, Alcohol, and Culture Wars after the Scopes TrialA myth-busting work on fundamentalists and culture. The Scopes Trial of 1925 is often regarded as a turning point in the history of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism. It is claimed that Scopes was a public relations defeat that sent fundamentalism into retreat from mainstream culture. In Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Evolution, Alcohol, and the Culture Wars after the Scopes Trial, Madison Trammel argues that such a characterization is misguided. Using documentary evidence from newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, Trammel shows that fundamentalists remained fully active in seeking to transform the culture for Christ, and they remained so through the rise of Billy Graham’s ministry. Grounded in historical evidence, Fundamentalists in the Public Square offers a fresh take on the relationship between fundamentalism, evangelicalism, and the public square. |
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