Description: Fighting Fundamentalist : Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism, Hardcover by Ruotsila, Markku, ISBN 0199372993, ISBN-13 9780199372997, Brand New, Free shipping in the US For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a
"McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early days of Americas culture wars.
Markku Ruotsilas Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. Ruotsila traces
McIntires life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year pastorate in Collingswood, New Jersey, and his presidency of the International Council of
Christian Churches, McIntire, Ruotsila shows, stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time. Drawing on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival collections-including the recently opened collection of the Carl McIntire papers and never-before-seen FBI files-Ruotsila looks beyond the
McIntire of legend to discover a serious theological, political, and economic combatant, a tireless organizer who pioneered the public theologies, inter-faith alliances, and political methods that would give birth to the Christian Right.
The moral values agenda of the 1970s and after would not have existed, Ruotsila shows, without the anti-communist and anti-New Deal activism that McIntire inaugurated. Indeed, twentieth-century American religious and political history were profoundly shaped by forces McIntire set in motion. Fighting
Fundamentalist tells the overlooked story of McIntire and the movement he inspired.
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Book Title: Fighting Fundamentalist : Carl Mcintire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Christian Church / History, Fundamentalism, Religious, Christianity / Presbyterian, General
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 25.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Markku Ruotsila
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
