Question 2: Evangelism's 20th cent history

Question 1

what was scopes trial over

Answer 1

whether schools can teach evolution

Question 2

S trial challenged

Answer 2

bib innerancy

Question 3

S trial actors; aftermath

Answer 3

evolution: darrow
Creation: Bryan
Darrow wins

o Sent conservatives into their own world/ cloistered bubble
• America was going to hell in a handbasket
• Lost publicly but weren’t done with their beliefs

Question 4

2 competing perspectives;

Answer 4

1. F stayed politically engaged against New Deal, etc, weren’t heard
2. F formed powerful subculture

Question 5

2: post-Scope, fundamentalism subculture

Answer 5

40s: bible schools, foreign mission societies, camp meetings

Question 6

2: F’s re-entry into society

Answer 6

Radio; youth for Christ movement; when the nation as a whole began turning to religion in the anxious days of WW II and its aftermath, fundamentalists were at the ready with their well-established infrastructure.

Question 7

When did Billy Graham arrive on scene

Answer 7

out of the chaos of WWII (postmodern turn)
A unique technological and political moment
Radio, advertising, marketing, etc.

Question 8

When did evangelicalism and fundamentalism split?

Answer 8

by the mid/late 1950’s with the founding of Christianity Today in 1956, Billy Graham’s disassociation with his earlier fundamentalist supporters during his spring 1957 New York crusade

Question 9

what compromises did evangelists make from fundamentalists?

Answer 9

E: friendly attitude towards science
F: biblical innerrancy

5. Renewed emphasis on scholarship
6. Renewed emphasis on social responsibility