FUNDAMENTALISMVS.MODERNISM The decade of the 1920s, a time of rapid change, was called “the Jazz Age.” The name seems to suggest a relaxed, easygoing attitude about life. Yet not all Americans then were relaxed or pleased about the changes taking place around them. For example, some...
Religion(sometimes cap.) a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Chri...
defending them against the inroads of theological modernism and liberalism: the inerrancy or literal truth of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, the substitutionary atonement of Christ, his bodily resurrection, the reality of miracles, Christ’s deity, and the second coming of the savior at...