Edward B. Davis

The word fundamentalist was first used in July 1920, and for much of the next decade American Protestants fought bitter internal battles over who would control their denominational seminaries, mission boards, and local churches. While those liberal Protestants who called themselves “modernists” sought to accommodate traditional Christian beliefs to modern science, politics, and culture, their conservative opponents were eager “to do battle royal for the fundamentals,” in the militaristic language of the Baptist preacher who coined the word… . Continue Reading »

God’s Universe by Owen Gingerich Belknap Press, 160 pages, $16.95 When Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, it was understood as a serious challenge to natural theology. For several generations, such leading Christian thinkers as Robert Boyle and William . . . . Continue Reading »