The Last Embers of British Fundamentalism

This article unearths the little-remembered history of British fundamentalist organisations of the Cold War era. These bodies constituted the last embers of an organised movement in Britain: the British Evangelical Council after 1953; the English Consultative Committee and the British Council of Pro...

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Main Author: Ruotsila, Markku 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2023, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 349-369
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Great Britain / International Council of Christian Churches / Fundamentalism / Organization / History 1947-1990
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBF British Isles
KDG Free church
KDJ Ecumenism
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Summary:This article unearths the little-remembered history of British fundamentalist organisations of the Cold War era. These bodies constituted the last embers of an organised movement in Britain: the British Evangelical Council after 1953; the English Consultative Committee and the British Council of Protestant Christian Churches from the mid-1950s; the Christian Bible Unity Fellowship in the 1960s; and the British and European Reformation Fellowship in the 1980s. Based on archival and published material, the article argues that these organisations tried to render US-style fundamentalism into a new Anglicised version, but that each failed due to confessional disagreements and personal rivalries.
ISSN:1469-7637
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022046922000422