If you have been reading Current this week you may have noticed that we featured an interview with historian Christopher Shannon and a review of his new book American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World. […]
George Marsden
Who is a fundamentalist today? George Marsden talks about the recent edition of his Fundamentalism and American Culture
Check out Marsden’s interview with Brian Kaylor at Word & Way: Marsden continues to affirm his view that a “fundamentalist” is a “militant evangelical.” This raises an interesting question. Is an evangelical who is a culture warrior a “fundamentalism?” Based […]
Is evangelical Christianity a religious movement, or is it something else?
I first read historian Paul E. Johnson’s 1978 book A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 in 1989 while I was studying church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Johnson argued that evangelical religion in Rochester, […]