The Variety of American Evangelicalism

by Dayton, Donald W.; Johnston, Robert K

• ISBN13: 9781579100544
• ISBN10: 1579100546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-03
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

What have Baptists to do with Lutherans of Holiness groups? Pietists with premillennialists? Pentecostals with restorationists? The self-consciously Reformed with Black religionists? Or fundamentalists with Adventists or Mennonites?Despite the apparent diversity of these groups, each has in some way been identified with American evangelicalism. Just how appropriate is such identification? How do these various traditions see themselves in relation to one another and the larger phenomenon known as evangelicalism?The editors of this volume have sought answers to these questions by inviting twelve expert interpreters of these traditions to compare each tradition's self-understanding with its understanding of evangelicalism. The result is a fascinating collection of essays - of interest to general readers as well as students and scholars - which make a significant contribution to the ongoing efforts to define and understand American evangelicalism.

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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