Where Have All the Fundamentalists Gone?

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

With two smart British historians—one from Oxford (Andrew) and one from Aberystwyth (David)--and one curious American pastor (Kevin), you might say that this episode puts the "fun" back in fundamentalism. How did fundamentalism become a pejorative putdown? Are evangelicals and fundamentalists really all that different? What is a fundamentalist anyway? And, to paraphrase Harry Emerson Fosdick, did the fundamentalists win or lose the last century? Join in as Kevin interviews two evangelical scholars about their new edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism.

Chapters:

0:00 Introductions

6:45 Why So Little Written by Fundamentalists?

11:44 Defining Fundamentalism

25:20 Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism

36:40 Sponsor Break | Crossway & DesiringGod

38:11 The Scopes Trial & Billy Graham

48:02 Evangelicalism & Politics in America

1:05:25 Did the Fundamentalists Win?

1:08:26 Until Next Time

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations.
0:09.7	Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.
0:12.0	I'm Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina.
0:18.5	And I am joined by my two guests. They are doing well to share a couch
0:25.2	or a chair this morning, I guess a couch, Andrew Atherstone and David Jones, who have edited
0:32.1	a new book, the Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism. I have several of these Oxford handbooks,
0:39.3	which are a compilation of scholarly chapters and articles, and I very much enjoyed reading
0:45.4	through this one. So Andrew and David, thank you for being on the program.
0:51.4	Thank you for having us. We're sitting in a room in Oxford. Very sunny early spring day here.
0:59.3	Oh, well, very fitting. So give a little bit background for each of you. I've worked with both of you on, as you've edited some projects that I've done and
1:12.2	appreciate that and I've appreciated your writings in other areas. And you've done a lot of work
1:18.5	in and around evangelicalism across a few different centuries. And now this is fundamentalism,
1:25.6	not evangelicalism. And that's going to be a big part of the questions
1:29.1	that I want to ask you, but just give a little bit of background for each of you personally,
1:34.3	and then why an interest in this topic?
1:37.9	Maybe Andrews start with you.
1:41.4	My day job is teaching a little seminary, evangelical seminary in Oxford, part of the university
1:47.3	here. It's called Wickliff Hall. And we were founded back in Victorian times, mostly to train
1:52.8	ministers for the Church of England. Though these days we train ministers for all sorts of different
1:59.0	churches and networks. And you can come here and do
2:03.1	theology. So I've been teaching here for 16 years now. And I love researching the history of
2:09.9	modern evangelicalism, last couple of centuries or so. Yeah, so David and I have collaborated several times on different
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