Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The history of "evangelical history". The evangelical denomination / George Marsden ; The nature of evangelical religion / David W. Bebbington ; The essential evangelicalism dialectic : the historiography of the early neo-evangelical movement and the observer-participant dilemma / Douglas A. Sweeney ; Evangelical constituencies in North America and the world / Mark A. Noll ; The evangelical discovery of history / David W. Bebbington ; Roundtable : re-examining David Bebbington's Quadrilateral ; Introduction / Charlie Phillips ; The Bebbington Quadrilateral and the work of the Holy Spirit / Thomas S. Kidd ; Bebbington's approach to evangelical Christianity as a pioneering effort in lived religion / Amanda Porterfield ; Revisiting Bebbington's classic rendering of modern evangelicalism at points of new departure / Darren Dochuk ; Noun or adjective? : the ravings of a fanatical nominalist / Mark A. Noll ; Defining evangelicalism : questions that complement the quadrilateral / Molly Worthen ; The evangelical Quadrilateral : a response / David W. Bebbington ; Evangelicals and unevangelicals : the contested history of a word / Linford D. Fisher -- Part II. The current crisis : looking back. A strange love? : or, How White evangelicals learned to stop worrying and love the Donald / Michael S. Hamilton ; Live by the polls, die by the polls / D.G. Hart ; Donald Trump and militant evangelical masculinity / Kristen Kobes Du Mez ; The "weird" fringe is the biggest part of White evangelicalism / Fred Clark -- Part III. The current crisis : assessment. Is the term "evangelical" redeemable? / Thomas S. Kidd ; Can evangelicalism survive Donald Trump? / Timothy Keller ; Idols of the Trump era / Molly Worthen ; Are Black Christians evangelicals? / Jemar Tisby ; To be or not to be an evangelical / Brian C. Stiller -- Part IV. Historians seeking perspective. On not mistaking one part for the whole : the future of American evangelicalism in a global perspective / George Marsden ; Evangelicals and recent politics in Britain / David W. Bebbington ; World Cup or World Series? / Mark A. Noll.

"This books draws together significant considerations of evangelicalism from three of the historians who have contributed a great deal to putting the subject on the map, along with selected commentary from others who have benefited from, or sometimes questioned, their work"-- Provided by publisher.