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Christian fundamentalism
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  • Origins
  • Doctrinal and institutional development
    • The late 19th to the mid-20th century
    • The mid-20th century to the present
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in Christian fundamentalism
Written by
J. Gordon Melton
Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Institute for Studies in Religion, Baylor University; Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Woodway, Texas. Author of La Chiesa...
J. Gordon Melton,
Ernest R. Sandeen
Professor of History, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1973–82. Author of The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism 1800–1930.
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Key People:
Billy Graham
Jim Bakker
Phoebe Worrall Palmer
Dwight L. Moody
Billy Sunday
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