By Harriet A. Harris
Oxford University Press. 384 pages. £48.00 (hardback)
ISBN 0 19 82690 9
This is the fruit of research engaged in by Dr. Harris at Oxford University and eventually resulting in the awarding of a D.Phil. It is a courageous attempt on the part of an 'outsider' to understand fundamentalists and evangelicals, assessing their strong points as well as their weaknesses, and particularly to analyse how they are related to each other, not simply historically, but as a matter of theology and method.
Evangelicals will, I think, be surprised (and no doubt annoyed) by this book. Surprised by a certain eccentricity in the selection of its material. For example, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who is undoubtedly one of the most formative influences of British evangelicalism, hardly gets a mention, whereas two whole chapters are given over to Dutch neo-Calvinism!
