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“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...

So I view the founders of Fuller as part of a party of “reforming fundamentalists,” not sharing all the traits of the most militant fundamentalism, to be sure, but identifying themselves sufficiently with that movement to be fairly considered in that camp. There was no clear line between fundamentalists and evangelicals during the period between 1947 and 1957. The emerging evangelicals were in an in-between state, repudiating some of the distinctives of fundamentalism, especially dispensationalism
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