Historians have sometimes argued, and popular discourse certainly assumes, that evangelicalism and fundamentalism are identical. In the twenty-first century, when Islamic fundamentalism is at the centre of the world's attention, whether or not evangelicalism should be seen as the Christian version of fundamentalism is an important matter for public understanding. The essays that make up this book analyse this central question. Drawing on empirical evidence from many
parts of the United Kingdom and from across the course of the twentieth century, the essays show that fundamentalism certainly existed in Britain, that evangelicals did sometimes show tendencies in a
fundamentalist direction, but that evangelicalism in Britain cannot simply be equated with fundamentalism.The evangelical movement within Protestantism that arose in the wake of the eighteenth-century revival exerted an immense influence on British society over the two subsequent centuries. Christian fundamentalism, by contrast, had its origins in the United States following the publication of The Fundamentals, a series of pamphlets issued to ministers between
1910 and 1915 that was funded by California oilmen. While there was considerable British participation in writing the series, the term 'fundamentalist' was invented in an exclusively American context when, in
1920, it was coined to describe the conservative critics of theological liberalism. The fundamentalists in Britain formed only a small section of evangelical opinion that declined over time.
Historians have sometimes argued, and popular discourse certainly assumes, that evangelicalism and fundamentalism are identical. In the twenty-first century, when Islamic fundamentalism is at the centre of the world's attention, whether or not evangelicalism should be seen as the Christian version of fundamentalism is an important matter for public understanding. The essays that make up this book analyse this central question. Drawing on empirical evidence from many
parts of the United Kingdom and from across the course of the twentieth century, the essays show that fundamentalism certainly existed in Britain, that evangelicals did sometimes show tendencies in a
fundamentalist direction, but that evangelicalism in Britain cannot simply be equated with fundamentalism.The evangelical movement within Protestantism that arose in the wake of the eighteenth-century revival exerted an immense influence on British society over the two subsequent centuries. Christian fundamentalism, by contrast, had its origins in the United States following the publication of The Fundamentals, a series of pamphlets issued to ministers between
1910 and 1915 that was funded by California oilmen. While there was considerable British participation in writing the series, the term 'fundamentalist' was invented in an exclusively American context when, in
1920, it was coined to describe the conservative critics of theological liberalism. The fundamentalists in Britain formed only a small section of evangelical opinion that declined over time.
1: David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones: Introduction:
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism
I: Before Fundamentalism
2: Geoffrey R. Treloar: The British Contribution to The
Fundamentals
3: Neil T. R. Dickson: A Scottish Fundamentalist? Thomas Whitelaw
of Kilmarnock (1840?1917)
II: The Beginnings of British Fundamentalism
4: Andrew Atherstone: The Church of England and Fundamentalism in
the Early Twentieth Century
5: Martin Wellings: Methodist Fundamentalism before and after the
First World War
6: David Bebbington: Baptists and Fundamentalism in Inter-War
Britain
7: Tim Grass: How Fundamentalist were British Brethren during the
1920s?
8: Linda Wilson: Women, Men and Fundamentalism in Britain in the
1920s and 30s
9: John Maiden: Fundamentalism and Anti-Catholicism in Interwar
English Evangelicalism
III: The Later Twentieth Century
10: Ian Randall: Billy Graham, Evangelism and Fundamentalism
11: Alister Chapman: Evangelical or Fundamentalista The Case of
John Stott
12: Derek Tidball: Secession is an Ugly Thing : The Emergence and
Development of Free Methodism in Late Twentieth-Century England
13: David Goodhew: Evangelical, but not Fundamentalist : A Case
Study of the New Churches in York, 1980a2011
IV: National Variations
14: Andrew Holmes: Revivalism and Fundamentalism in Ulster: W. P.
Nicholson in Context
15: Kenneth B. E. Roxburgh: Fundamentalism in Scotland
16: David Ceri Jones: Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in Post-War
Wales, 1947--1981? David Ceri Jones
V: Theological Reflections
17: William K. Kay: Pentecostalism and Fundamentalism
18: Rob Warner: Evangelical Bases of Faith and Fundamentalizing
Tendencies
19: Stephen Holmes: Evangelicals, Fundamentalism and Theology
20: David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones: Conclusion
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An undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge (1968-71), David
Bebbington began his doctoral studies there (1971-73) before
becoming a research fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
(1973-76). Since 1976 he has taught at the University of Stirling,
where from 1999 he has been Professor of History. He has also
taught at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, at Regent College,
Vancouver, at Notre Dame University, Indiana, at the University of
Pretoria, South
Africa, and at Baylor University, Texas.
A native of Port Talbot, David Ceri Jones is currently a Lecturer
in History at Aberystwyth University. Following doctoral work on
the eighteenth century evangelical revival at Aberystwyth, David
served as a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for
Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies where he produced an edition of
the correspondence of the Welsh Romantic Iolo Morganwg. Since then
he has published extensively in the fields of eighteenth century
Methodism in Wales and beyond, and in
some aspects of contemporary evangelicalism. He is also an
Associate Curate in the Church of Wales, serving three parishes in
northern Ceredigion.
This collection of 18 essays, plus an editorial introduction and
conclusion, is certain to become required reading for anyone
interested in twentieth-century evangelical Protestant Christianity
in the United Kingdom, or in the problems facing the scholar who
tries to define fundamentalism.
*Graham Gould, The Journal of Theological Studies,*
This book provides the definitive account of fundamentalism and
Evangelicalism in Britain.
*Revd Dr David Martin, Church Times*
Bebbington and Ceri Jones collected a team of 18 authors and tasked
them with reflecting on the relationship between UK fundamentalism
and evangelicalism in the twentieth century. What a good an
interesting job they make of it! . . . Some fascinating insights
emerge in these pages.
*Michael Bochenski, European Journal of Theology*
For anyone involved in helping adults to think theologically about
fundamentalism and evangelicalism, it is indispensable reading.
*Brian Stanley, Adult Theological Education*
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