Issue 55 : The Monkey Trial & the Rise of Fundamentalism
Originally published in 1997
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Table of Contents
The tumultuous culture in which American churches waged their religious war
Editors
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The first “trial of the century” revealed a great divide separating American Christians.
David Goetz
Who could pray at the trial?
David Goetz
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Bryan cross-examines his adversary.
Editors
Condensed editorials from the summer of 1925 show a nation at odds.
What liberals believed—and why fundamentalists made such a fuss.
Harold Carl
All fundamentalists fought with modernists—but not for the same reasons or in the same way.
D.G. Hart
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It's pretty hard to stereotype early fundamentalist leaders.
Kelvin Crow
The people, conferences, and organizations that made up the fundamentalist family.
Bob Jones IV
Modernism's most popular preacher on the hopes of liberals.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fundamentalism's most gifted theologian critiques liberalism.
J. Gresham Machen
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Women played a surprisingly prominent role in early fundamentalism.
Mary Ann Jeffreys
How fundamentalists strove mightily to make sense of history.
Editors
The leading historian of fundamentalism assesses the damages inflicted by the fundamentalist-modernist controversy.
George Marsden
A fundamentalist historian answers the critics of fundamentalism.
Mark Sidwell
The Rise of Fundamentalism
Mark Galli
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