Introduction Defining Evangelical Diversity A Boundary Approach to the Study of American Evangelical Protestantism The Liberal and Conservative Divide in American Protestantism, 1880-1940 The Emergence of a 'New' Evangelicalism, 1940-1965 The Evangelical Boundary Dilemma: Checking the Drift Toward Liberalism, 1940-1965 The Break-Up of the New Evangelical Coalition, 1965-1995

American Evangelicalism is a vast and nearly indefinable coalition movement of sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating denominations and independent churches whose ideological boundaries have been shifting since its postwar reemergence. On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism seeks to account for the emergence of this coalition of moderate Protestants in the 1940s and 1950s as distinct from fundamentalism on the right and liberalism on the left and speculate on the reasons for the fracturing and decline of that coalition in the 1960s to the 1990s.

JON R. STONE is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion and University Lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California in Santa Barbara. In the Fall of 1997, he will assume a lectureship in Religious Studies at the University of California in Berkeley.