History Department      

History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – November 14, 2005  

Fundamentalism & Modernism  

QUESTIONS:   

Our topic today is FUNDAMENTALISM, specifically CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM.  

Please review the five articles that began this section:  

  1. The Fundamentals
  2. “Fundamentalism is very much alive” (1921)
  3. “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” (1922)
  4. “Christianity and Liberalism” (1923)
  5. “Fundamentalism and Modernism” (1924)

Based on these texts, what were the key issues dividing “fundamentalists” from “non-fundamentalists?”  

NOW: review each of the “expert-witness” articles for today:  

  1. G. Marsden, “Tremors of Controversy”
  2. W. Gatewood, “Introduction to: Controversy in the Twenties
  3. F. Szasz, “The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, 1918-1930

BASED ON ALL THIS HARD WORK – HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN “FUNDAMENTALISM”?  (Imagine a friend who asked you what “fundamentalism” was all about.  What would you say?  What points would you make?  You might say, “well, there are FOUR key things you need to know …”  What would they be?
 

 

 

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