Christian History Home > Issue 55 > The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: From the Editor - A Movement to Make One Mad
The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: From the Editor - A Movement to Make One Mad
Mark Galli | posted 7/01/1997 12:00AM
Some theologies make the eyes glaze over; others make the blood boil. To me, Calvinism is intellectually coherent; medieval scholasticism, logically rigorous; and the Anglicanism of a Richard Hooker, emotionally satisfying. But I have to exert a great deal of mental discipline to stick with books of these stripes. Interesting stuff but not stuff that demands my attention.
On the other hand, take liberation theology. It drives me crazy—the philosophical assumptions, the sweeping statements, the judgmentalism. And then there's all that stuff about concern for the poor that strikes just a little too close to home. I don't stop reading liberation theology because it finally bores me but because it makes me too angry to go on.
That's how a lot of people feel about fundamentalism. It's hard to be neutral about the movement, with all its sweeping statements and judgmentalism—and its jibes about theological and moral compromise that strike just a tad close to home sometimes. There may be many "angry ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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