Fighting Fundamentalist : Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fu...

by Markku Ruotsila

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Fighting Fundamentalist : Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism, Hardcover by Ruotsila, Markku, ISBN 0199372993, ISBN-13 9780199372997, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early days of America's culture wars. Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist , the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. Ruotsila traces McIntire's life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year pastorate in Collingswood, New Jersey, and his presidency of the International Council of Christian Churches, McIntire, Ruotsila shows, stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time. Drawing on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival collections-including th

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2015
• ISBN: 9780199372997
• Condition: Fine

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