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Christian fundamentalism

American Protestant movement
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Ernest R. Sandeen
Professor of History, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1973–82. Author of The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism 1800–1930.
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Christian fundamentalism, movement in American Protestantism that arose in the late 19th century in reaction to theological modernism, which aimed to revise traditional Christian beliefs to accommodate new developments in the natural and social sciences, especially the theory of biological evolution. In keeping with traditional Christian doctrines concerning biblical interpretation, the mission of Jesus Christ, and the role of the church in society, fundamentalists affirmed a core of Christian beliefs that included the historical accuracy...

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