[Hac-announce] Fundamentalist Protestants and Modernity

[Thomas Platt]

In his "God is not One", in the middle of p. 86, Stephen Prothero  
states "and what fundamentalists are angry at is modernity".

Besides the new fields of geology and evolution, analytical methods  
of biblical scholarship, so well described by James Kugel in "How to  
Read the Bible'', and also by our own David Schafer, constituted a  
third big threat to traditional Protestant theology in the late 19th  
ands early 20th century.  The following quote from an online UToronto  
course entitled "Transitions in Canadian Protestantism since 1867"  
states the problem simply:

"From the 1850s, the churches underwent some intense theological  
struggles with modernity. In particular, should biblical  
interpretation and doctrine accommodate the discoveries of geology,  
the theory of evolution, and the sometimes corrosive new methods of  
historical study? Those who said "yes" were called "modernists". The  
term "liberal" in theology has much the same meaning. In Anglican  
circles the term 'broad church' was used."

This quote can be sourced under "Theology and modernity" at
http://individual.utoronto.ca/hayes/Canada/modernity.htm