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A fundamentalist cartoon portraying modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan. The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
American modernism is an artistic and cultural movement in the United States beginning at the turn of the 20th century, with a core period between World War I and World War II. Like its European counterpart, American modernism stemmed from a rejection of Enlightenment thinking, seeking to better represent reality in a new, more industrialized ...
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The term mainline Protestant was coined during debates between modernists and fundamentalists in the 1920s. [10] Several sources claim that the term is derived from the Philadelphia Main Line, a group of affluent suburbs of Philadelphia; most residents belonged to mainline denominations. [11]
1920s in the United States by state or territory (61 C) 1920s disestablishments in the United States (60 C, 2 P) 1920s establishments in the United States (64 C, 9 P)
Culture wars between fundamentalist Christians and modernists became more intense, as demonstrated by prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan , and the highly publicized Scopes Trial. The nation enjoyed a period of sustained prosperity in the 1920s.
During the 1920s, while fragmented electricity grids were just maturing in towns and cities (the national grid not coming on until 1933), petroleum and to a lesser extent natural gas was fast ...
Christian fundamentalism, also known as fundamental Christianity or fundamentalist Christianity, is a religious movement emphasizing biblical literalism. [1] In its modern form, it began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants [2] as a reaction to theological liberalism and cultural modernism.