Issue 55 The Monkey Trial & the Rise of Fundamentalism

The tumultuous culture in which American churches waged their religious war.

The fundamentalist complaint about liberal rationalism is ironically also a fair critique of fundamentalism.

The first trial of the century revealed a great divide separating American Christians.

Who could pray at the trial?

Eccentric aspects of this first media trial.

Bryan cross-examines his adversary.

Condensed editorials from the summer of 1925 show a nation at odds.

What liberals believed—and why fundamentalists made such a fuss.

All fundamentalists fought with modernists but not for the same reasons or in the same way.

Chronology of the rise of Fundamentalism.

It’s pretty hard to stereotype early fundamentalist leaders.

The people, conferences, and organizations that made up the fundamentalist family.

Modernism’s most popular preacher on the hopes of liberals.

Fundamentalism’s most gifted theologian critiques liberalism.

Women played a surprisingly prominent role in early fundamentalism.

How fundamentalists strove mightily to make sense of history.

The leading historian of fundamentalism assesses the damages inflicted by the fundamentalist-modernist controversy.

A fundamentalist historian answers the critics of fundamentalism.

Resources for further study of fundamentalism and the Scopes trial.