Title

Fundamentalism

Author(s)

William Vance Trollinger, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Encyclopedia Entry

Publication Date

2003

Publication Source

New and Enlarged Handbook of Christian Theology

Abstract

In America fundamentalism is a movement within Protestantism that was organized immediately after World War I in opposition to "modernism," which included liberal theology primarily, and also Darwinism and secularism. A subgroup of evangelicalism, fundamentalism staunchly affirmed with evangelicals "fundamentals of the faith," including the deity of Christ, his virgin birth, his bodily resurrection, and his substitutionary atonement. What distinguishes fundamentalists from other evangelicals is their strident opposition to modernism. They are, to quote George Marsden, "militant anti-modernist evangelicals."

Inclusive pages

206-209

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-687-09112-6

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

Permission pending from publisher. Any content used from this publication must be cited appropriately. Citation information:

• Trollinger, William Vance. "Fundamentalism." In New and Enlarged Handbook of Christian Theology. Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price, editors. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2003 (pp. 206-209).

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Copyright

Copyright © 2003, Abingdon Press.

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Place of Publication

Nashville, TN

Edition

Revised edition

eCommons Citation

Trollinger, William Vance, "Fundamentalism" (2003). History Faculty Publications. 9.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/hst_fac_pub/9