![]() ![]() ![]() She continues through the struggles of the Civil War and explores the split that occurred in evangelicalism between fundamentalists and modernists in the late 1800s. ![]() In her fascinating new book, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Pulitzer Prize winner Frances FitzGerald gives a broad overview of the history of American evangelicalism, but more importantly focuses on how, in the last fifty years, evangelicalism has once again reasserted itself into the American mainstream.įitzGerald begins her book with a brief history of the First Great Awakening in 1735 and quickly moves on to the second in the early 1800’s. And yet many of us have only a vague understanding of evangelical thought and history, or even how evangelicals view themselves. For humanists, dedicated to critical thinking, reason, and firmly opposed to supernatural beliefs, there may be no group in the United States more directly opposed to our worldview than the evangelicals. ![]()
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