- The Fundamentals
"The Fundamentals" or "The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth" edited by A. C. Dixon and later by
Reuben Archer Torrey is a set of 90 essays in 12 volumes published from 1910 to 1915 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. They were designed to affirm orthodoxProtestant beliefs and defend against ideas deemed inimical to them. They are widely considered to be the foundation of the modernFundamentalist movement.The essays were originally financed by Lyman and Milton Stewert, two wealthy Christian oil magnates, in 1909 to set out what they believed to be the fundamentals of Christian faith. These were to be sent free [http://www.gotquestions.org/fundamentalism.html] to ministers, missionaries, Sunday School superintendents and others active in
Christian ministry .The volumes defended orthodox Protestant beliefs and attacked
higher criticism ,liberal theology ,Catholicism (also called by themRomanism ),socialism ,modern philosophy ,atheism ,Christian Science ,Mormonism ,Spiritualism , andevolutionism (an article by geologistGeorge Frederick Wright ).References
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*" [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6528/fundcont.htm The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth] ", edited by R.A. Torrey (1910-15)
*"The Fundamentals" edited by R. A. Torrey, Baker Books, 2003 (reprint of 1917 edition); [http://www.eaec.org/bookstore/the_fundamentals.htm online texts]
*"Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism" by George M. Marsden, Wm B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1991
*"Fundamentalism and American Culture" by George M. Marsden, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2006
*"Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalism around the World (The Fundamentalist Project)", by Gabriel A. Almond, University of Chicago Press, 2003
*"The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism", by Ronald A. Numbers, University of California Press, 1992.
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