By the early 1970s, two major evangelical denominations, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, were embroiled in controversies over inerrancy. In 1976 Christianity Today editor Harold Lindsell successfully revived inerrancy as a primary issue in transdenominational evangelicalism, suggesting in his much-discussed The Battle for the Bible that whoever denied inerrancy was not an evangelical at all.22 The transdenominational movement to reform fundamentalism was thus