The Variety of American Evangelicalism

by Dayton, Donald W.; Johnston, Robert K.

• ISBN13: 9780830817542
• ISBN10: 0830817549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-04-01
• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr

Summary

Those labeled as "evangelicals" commonly are assumed to constitute a large and fairly homogeneous segment of American Protestantism. This volume suggests that, in fact, evangelicalism is better understood as a set of distinct subtraditions, each with its own history, organizations, and priorities. The differences among groups are so important that the question arises: Is the term "evangelical" useful at all?

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Premillennialism and the Branches of Evangelicalism	p. 5
Fundamentalism and American Evangelicalism	p. 22
The Limits of Evangelicalism: The Pentecostal Tradition	p. 36
Adventism	p. 57
The Theological Identity of the North American Holiness Movement	p. 72
Are Restorationists Evangelicals?	p. 109
Black Religion and the Question of Evangelical Identity	p. 135
Baptists and Evangelicals	p. 148
Pietism: Theology in Service of Living Toward God	p. 161
Evangelicalism: A Mennonite Critique	p. 184
Evangelicals and the Self-Consciously Reformed	p. 204
Lutheranism	p. 222
Some Doubts about the Usefulness of the Category "Evangelical"	p. 245
American Evangelicalism: An Extended Family	p. 252
Contributors	p. 273
Index	p. 279
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