Introduction : What is evangelicalism : claiming the gospel message ; defining the Scripture principle -- 1. Antimodernist modernizers : the making of fundamentalist evangelicalism : -- Luther, Calvin, and Protestant scholasticism -- Scholastic certainty : Princeton realism as Rreformed orthodoxy -- Dividing the Word : dispensationalism -- Princeton orthodoxy in the fundamentalist movement -- Defending and splintering fundamentalism -- Fundamentalism without inerrancy -- 2. "Needing prestige desperately" : fundamentalism reformed : -- Reforming fundamentalism : the founders -- Carnell's "sack full of arguments" -- The limits of apologetics : Clark and Van Til -- Is rationality enough? -- Managing Fuller Theological Seminary -- Personalizing apologetics -- Representing the new evangelicalism -- The battle for Fuller Seminary -- 3. The evangelical crossroads : rethinking infallibility : -- Carl Henry and evangelical epistemology -- Upholding inerrancy evangelicalism -- Refiguring Word and Spirit : Bernard Ramm -- Fundamentalism reconsidered : Clark Pinnock -- Rethinking infallibility -- Taking the Barthian option -- 4. Arminian and catholic options : opening up evangelicalism: -- Upholding the Wesleyan difference -- Word and Spirit in the Wesleyan traditions -- Appealing to the great tradition : catholic evangelicalism -- The Arminian turn -- A wideness in God's mercy -- 5. Postconservative evangelicalism : dialogues in search of a generous orthodoxy : -- Authorities in dispute : liberalism and evangelicalism -- Evangelicalism beyond modernity : Donald Bloesch's catholic (neo)orthodoxy -- Opening the house of authority : progressive evangelicalism -- Revelatory narrative : engaging postliberal theology -- Taking culture seriously : new horizons in hermeneutics.