Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism An Analysis of the History Surrounding the Publication of The Fundamentals and the Fundamentalist-Modernist.

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Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism An Analysis of the History Surrounding the Publication of The Fundamentals and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy Presented by: Tim Phillips CHS 572 April 6, 2010

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism What do you think of when you hear the word “fundamentalist”?

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism Historical Events Leading to the Rise of Fundamentalism German Liberal Theology Darwin's Origin of the Species The theology of Schleiermacher The “Social Gospel”

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy Early 20 th century Pitted the Fundamentalists (conservatives) against the Modernists (liberals) Key event: the publication of The Fundamentals from

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism The Fundamentals Financed by two California oilmen, Lyman and Milton Stewart Edited by two pastors, R.A. Torrey and A.C. Dixon Twelve paperback volumes sent free to 3,000,000 Christian workers Written by sixty-four different contributors Very “ecumenical” in nature

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism What were “The Fundamentals”? The inerrancy of Scripture The virgin birth of Christ The substitutionary atonement of Christ The bodily resurrection of Christ The miracles of Christ (The second coming of Christ)

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism Opposition by Modernists Harry Emerson Fosdick (“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”) “The Auburn Affirmation”

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism Fundamentalism Today The Scopes Monkey Trial The change in meaning “Evangelical”

Putting the “Fun” Back into Fundamentalism Modernist Tendencies in the Modern Church “We need deeds, not creeds” WWJD Moralism “Cafeteria Christianity”