Marsden - Fundamentalism And American Culture

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George M. Marsden (Education)

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Yale University M.A.,1961, Ph.D. 1965 (American Studies)
Topic of Dissertation:  "The New School Presbyterian Mind:  A Study of Theology in Mid-Nineteenth Century America"

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George M. Marsden (Church)

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Member in Christian Reformed Church

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George M. Marsden (Writings)

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- The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1970. 
- A Christian View of History?, editor with Frank Roberts.  Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 1975.
- Fundamentalism and American Culture:  The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1980. (Korean Edition, Word of Life Press, 1997).
- Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity in America, co-editor with Mark A. Noll, et al.  Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 1983.
- Evangelicalism and Modern America, editor.  Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 1984.
- Reforming Fundamentalism:  Fuller Seminary and The New Evangelicalism.  Grand Rapids:  William B. Eerdmans, 1987.
- The Search for Christian America, co-author with Mark A. Noll and Nathan  O. Hatch.  Westchester, Illinois:  Crossway Books, 1983.  Revised edition.  Colorado Springs:  Helmers and Howard, 1989.
- Religion and American Culture.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
- Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism.  Grand Rapids:  William B. Eerdmans, 1991.  (A collection of previously published essays).
- The Secularization of the Academy, edited with Bradley J. Longfield. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1992).
- The Soul of the American University. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (Korean edition, Korean InterVarsity Press, 2000)
- Jonathn Edwards: A Life: (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).

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Thesis

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20th century American fundamentalism is a constructed subculture from American Revivalism (224) caused by traumatic cultural upheaval, with institutions, mores, and social connections that would eventually provide acceptable alternatives to the dominant religious, cultural (204) and intellectual (215) paradigms. (214).

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Marsden's Fundamentalism

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From Gilly's Review:
a reaction to cultural changes and influenced by philosophical theories such as Scottish Common Sense Realism (pp. 14-16), it nevertheless developed primarily from a literal understanding of Scripture. Fundamentalism’s roots were traced to Calvinism, the Holiness Movement, and Dispensationalism. As Fundamentalism became more formative, it was predominately premillennial with a dispensational persuasion. However, resolute Reformed Calvinists, such as J. Gresham Machen, would serve in a vital role (especially intellectually).

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19th Century traditions as roots of Fundamentalism

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Fundamentalism is best understood as a sub-species of American revivalism rather than as an out-growth of the movements espousing millenarianism or inerrancy. (224)

a. Revivalism
b. Evangelicalism
c. Pietism
d. Americanism
e. Varient Orthodixies

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Critique of Sandeen

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- Too narrow definition of fundamentalism (200)
- Mistook 'Roots' for 'Source' not sophisticated
- too theological a definition, overcorrected the sociological only view

Fundamentalism is best understood as a sub-species of American revivalism rather than as an out-growth of the movements espousing millenarianism or inerrancy. (224)

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Critique of Furniss/Cole

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The issue was a classic instance of what Thomas Kuhn, the controversial historian of science, describes as a 'paradigm conflict' of two scientific world views. (214)

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Part I:1 Before Fundamentalism

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I. Evangelical America Crises the Scottish Common Sense Realism of 1800s is challenged by Kant and German Idealism and in the theological work of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Albrect Ritschl. Religion now had to do with experience and moral sense/action
(20)

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Part I:2–3 Paths Diverge/ Moody

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Discuss the rise of the New Theology influenced by the romanticists, and the Move of Wheaton and D. L. Moody to a more conservative position with Moody not fully adopting premillinialism, but promogulating the Victorious Life.

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Part II. The Shaping of A Coalition

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