On the boundaries of American Evangelicalism
Subtitle: the postwar Evangelical coalition
By: Jon R. Stone.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Church history -- 20th century
Description: The American Evangelical movement consists of a vast and nearly indefinable coalitional movement of sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating denominations and independent churches whose ideological boundaries have been shifting since its postwar reemergence.

On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism seeks to account for the emergence of this coalition of moderate Protestants in the 1940s and 1950s, as distinct from fundamentalism on the right and liberalism on the left, and speculates on the reasons for the fracturing and decline of that coalition since the 1960s.

Beyond recounting the history of postwar evangelicalism, this volume contributes to our understanding of ideological movements and the construction of boundaries and the shifts that occur within them over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 1990.