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Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism is unavailable, but you can change that!

“The best telling of the story of the past,” writes George Marsden, “relies on a balance of the general and the particular.” In this book, a sequel and companion to his widely acclaimed Fundamentalism and American Culture, Marsden uses the history of Fuller Theological Seminary—a durable evangelical institution—as a lens through which to focus an examination of the broader story of evangelicalism...

changing times. It proclaimed that true believers were a holy remnant, that they should maintain personal purity while waiting for the Lord to return, and that they should concentrate on rescuing the perishing. All these dispensationalist emphases could dampen efforts to reform civilization either through politics or education. This unresolved tension was crucial for understanding the movement that a generation later became known as the “new evangelicalism.”
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