Fundamentalism
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Fundamentalism
In the late ninetieth and early twentieth century rose the Fundamentalism in the United States. This Protestant Christian movement can be characterized as
the religious response to modernism. Their doctrines based on the literal interpretation of the bible. They believed in the divine creation of the world in seven days, in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, his bodily resurrection and his return to
the earth. They did not accept any other interpretation of these fundaments of their faith.
This movement acquired the name Fundamentalists from "The Fundamentals. A Testimony to the Truth", a collection of twelve booklets published in the period between 1910 and 1915. The Fundamentalists reacted against the wave of non-protestant immigrants and the social, cultural and educational changes related to modernism. They wanted to defend their Christian moral standards and traditional, old fashioned values against the rapidly modernizing world. This group considered the Bible as infallible and the original texts of the Bible as inspired by God's own words...