The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
What was the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and Does it Still Matter?
Dennis A. Wright, DMin
Yes it does still matter
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
Various Authors
The Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Untold Story of The Fundamentals
Paul Rood
A century ago, Biola founder Lyman Stewart anonymously funded a hugely influential set of essays known as The Fundamentals. Learn how Stewart and others helped to shape the face of evangelicalism today.
The Historical Background of the Five Fundamentals
Oliver Price
Norman F. Furniss in The Fundamentalist Controversy, 1918–1931 concludes by depicting fundamentalism as a lost cause. Stewart G. Cole in the closing chapter of The History of Fundamentalism likewise pictures the fundamentalists as a minority drifting toward extinction. There are signs today, however, of a lively revival of interest in fundamentalism though sometimes manifested in a volley of criticism.
John Gresham Machen, Defender of the Faith
Michael A.G. Haykin
In the early stages of what has come to be known as the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy, John Gresham Machen (1881–1937), then Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary, set this struggle in the overall framework of church history.
The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth
Reuben A. Torrey
These 90 essays by 64 different authors, from most of the major Christian denominations, were published from 1910 to 1915 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
William Jennings Bryan, Evolution, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
Ferenc M Szasz
Following the Scopes Trial in 1925, William Jennings Bryan was widely considered to be the main leader of the Fundamentalist position. However, the author argues that William Jennings Bryan had little to do with the late 19th and early 20th century origins of Fundamentalism, and that he differed from most fundamentalist leaders in theology, tactics, and his view of the nature of American society. The author further argues that evolution was a peripheral issue among fundamentalists until Bryan made it a central issue in the 1920s.
The Impact of the Theological Views of William Jennings Bryan upon His Educational Ideals
Kenneth A. Epp
This is a 296-page Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation.
The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism
Christian History Magazine
In the 1920s, as conflicts between “fundamentalists” and “modernists” heated up, change in American culture was accelerating. Some Christians celebrated these dramatic
changes; others pointed to current events as proof that things were only getting worse.
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
G. M. Marsden and B. J. Longfield
An extended conflict in the Protestant churches and American society at large between religious liberals, who sought to preserve Christianity by accommodating the traditional faith to modern culture, and militant theological conservatives, determined to save evangelical Christianity and American civilization from the advances of modernism and Darwinism.
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
John R. Muether
Modern scholars who study contemporary American Protestantism commonly divide the movement into two main groups: Mainline Protestants (theologically liberal) and Evangelicals (theologically conservative or”Bible believing”).
J. Gresham Machen’s Response to Modernism
John Piper, DTheol
Piper’s excellent essay presented at the 1993 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors.
Very Highly Recommended!
Charles Woodbridge and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
John Woodbridge
Woodbridge’s personal glimpses and perceptions of Professor J. Gresham Machen and Professor Adolph von Harnack.
Inerrancy as an Issue in the Fundamentalist Movement, 1900 to the Present
Brian Wagner
Ever since Satan said to Eve, “Has God indeed said…” man has begun to question God’s Word and to his own peril.
Life and Work of Robert Dick Wilson
Brian Nicks
At a time when his denomination and seminary were turning away from conservative, orthodox views of the Bible, Robert Dick Wilson felt called to challenge respected scholars in their Higher Criticism of Scripture.
A Christian Fundamentalist Travel Guide
Matthew Hoskinson
Since fundamentalist has such negative connotations, it is a wonder that anyone would accept it as anything but an accusation. Nevertheless tens of thousands of Christians gladly adopt and defend this label.
For Church and Country: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy in the Presbyterian Church
Bradley J. Longfield
From Exodus to Exile: The Early Fundamentalist Movement Among Maritime Baptists, 1930-1939
Taylor James Murray
This is a Master of Arts in Theology Thesis (170 pages).
The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
Andrew T. Coates
This is a Doctor of Philosophy dissertation (381 pages)
John R. Rice, The Sword of the Lord, and the Fundamentalist Conversation: Comparisons with J. Frank Norris's The Fundamentalist and Carl McIntire's The Christian Beacon
Robin L. Smith
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