Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perpetual adolescence : the current culture of North American evangelicalism -- The "parachurch" : promise and peril -- A double Copernican revolution : leadership and membership in the church -- Evangelicals and the Bible : yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- A complicated matter : money and theology in North American evangelicalism -- The Christian church in the new dark age : illiteracy, aliteracy, and the word of God -- A "paradigm case" : Billy Graham and the nature of conversion -- Women in public ministry : five models in twentieth-century North American evangelicalism -- Why Johnny can't produce Christian scholarship : a reflection on real-life impediments -- Evangelical theology should be evangelical : a conservative, radical proposal -- Speaking in tongues : communicating the gospel today.