Summary Of Fundamentalalism And American Culture By George Marsden

My closing book report for the class is an assessment of the Book entitled “Fundamentalism and American Culture” by George M Marsden. It is in this essay where my objective will be to classify and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and merits of the book. The first strength I observe with the book is the in dept clarification of what the fundamentalist movement exactly consisted of. The fundamentalist movement has managed to stand firm against the pressures of the scientific society and also the draw of contemporary trendy culture to clutch on to their ultra-conservation Christian outlook. This book has for long been considered a classic in religious olden times by many professors and scholars over the years. I will say, just like with

Of course, there were other viewpoints in America such as Roman Catholics, dogmatism, “doubting Thomas’”, and of course flat out non Christians, however, the assurance of the Protestant seem to be the standardizing American doctrine. I was flabbergasted to find out that one of the greatest oppositions of the American evangelical civilization was the Civil War. The Civil War, widely interpreted as “a true Apocalyptic contest,” for many Northerners the victory confirmed, as one Presbyterian observer put it, that “we as individuals, and as a nation, are identified with that kingdom of God among men, which is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” *Footnote* This section is entitled Evangelical America at the Brink of Crisis, and there was a crisis due to different aspects of philosophy such as “The Common Sense Philosophy” as well as relying heavily on approaches such as the scientific method. One of the scientific methods that most are familiar with that caused problems was Darwinism; some evangelicals had even adopted this method even though it poses as a menace to the very foundations of theistic and Christian

*footnote* That preacher would be none other than son of Lymann Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher. The people who were facing the current time predicament were none other than the Victorians, and the privileged of this culture alleged that they had an assignment among the underprivileged at home and amongst the heathen out of the country to fortify and Christianize. In an age where prominence was growing on data, regularity, professionalism, specialization, and an incredible industrial spreading out, the era of the Victorians was characterized by the desire for order in humanity. The social adjustment in America in all probability had to be the most distressing, this due to the fact that the culture was varying from one conquered by small towns and the countryside to one formed by cities and suburbs; there would also arise ethical, social, employment, and political tribulations beyond the capacities of customary solutions that were fashioned by