Fundamentalist U

What has it meant to be a fundamentalist?” To answer this question, Adam Laats traces the history of a set of influential, interdenominational Christian schools (the Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, Gordon College, Dallas Theological Seminary, Westminster Theological Seminary, Biola University, Liberty University, and Bob Jones University) that took their shape from the fundamentalist movement that roiled U.S. Protestantism in the 1920s. Fundamentalist U skillfully lays out a series of interlinked arguments. Fundamentalism has been as much a cultural and political phenomenon as a theological one, and its meanings have always been up for debate. Because the movement possesses no center of organizational authority, Christian universities have served as key sites for articulating and contesting its boundaries, and they have offered competing and ever-shifting definitions. Yet those institutions, like fundamentalism itself, were distinctively modern, embodying not only a theological revolt but also wider trends in U.S. higher education. These ranged from the structural changes of the 1870–1920 period (which reflected a shift from the conservation of absolute truths to an ongoing quest for empirical knowledge) to the postwar G.I. Bill and the social upheavals of the 1960s

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