A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

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Fundamentalism and
Evangelicalism
In the early twentieth century, conservative
Protestants began to rally against Liberalism
(Modernism) and its higher criticism of the Bible. They
defended a traditional understanding of the Bible and
affirmed fundamental doctrines that Christians of all
branches had held over the centuries. They also stood
against Darwinian evolution and Marxist socialism.
The Fundamentalists
From 1910 to 1915 prominent conservative
Protestant scholars wrote a series of twelve pamphlets
called The Fundamentals, which defended key doctrines
that were under attack. The result was a new movement
called Fundamentalism. Of course, the basic doctrines
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