From The Gospel Coalition website.
Required Books
- Carpenter, Joel A. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Graham, Billy. Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness. 1955; reprint, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2000.
- Hankins, Barry, ed. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
- Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Sutton, Matthew Avery. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Sweeney, Douglas A. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.
Required Essays
- Hamilton, Michael S. “The Interdenominational Evangelicalism of D. L. Moody and the Problem of Fundamentalism.” In American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the State of American Religious History, eds. Darren Dochuk, Thomas S. Kidd, and Kurt W. Peterson, 230-80. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.
- Marsden, George M. “The Rise of Fundamentalism.” In Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism, eds. Heath W. Carter and Laura Rominger Porter, 133-53. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
- Sweeney, Douglas A. “The Essential Evangelicalism Dialectic: The Historiography of the Early Neo-Evangelical Movement and the Observer-Participant Dilemma.” Church History 60.1 (March 1991): 70-84.
Monographs (assigned to individual students, not the entire class)
- Bendroth, Margaret. Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
- Dochuk, Darren. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Religion, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. New York: Norton, 2010.
- Gasaway, Brantley W. Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Gloege, Timothy. Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Hankins, Barry. Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2003.
- Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion, 2nd ed. New York: Basic, 2006.
- Marsden, George. Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
- Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam. Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2017.
- Miller, Steven P. The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Swartz, David R. Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
- Williams, Daniel. God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Worthen, Molly. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Biographies (assigned to individual students, not the entire class)
- Blumhofer, Edith. Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.
- Dorsett, Lyle. Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
- Evenson, Bruce J. God’s Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Hankins, Barry. God’s Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
- Turner, John. Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
- Wacker, Grant. America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
