Have Fundamentalists Stopped calling themselves "Fundamentalists?"
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During much of the 20th century "Fundamentalism" was serious movement in Christianity. According to Britannica:
> The term fundamentalist was coined in 1920 to describe conservative
> Evangelical Protestants who supported the principles expounded in The
> Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth (1910–15), a series of 12
> pamphlets that attacked modernist theories of biblical criticism and
> reasserted the authority of the Bible.
Fundamentalism affirmed principles such as biblical inerrancy and the truth of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity, the incarnation, physical resurrection, the rapture and the Second Coming. It grew up in particular opposition to modernist ideas like Evolution, in the wake of Scopes "Monkey Trial." It also became influential in politics through movements such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. It seems to me, however, that the term has fallen out of favor, especially as a result of Islamic fundamentalism and its terrorist political ramifications. Indeed, I found only two questions in this entire site with titles including the word "fundamentalism" or "fundamentalist."
Questions: Do fundamentalists, still use that term to describe themselves? Would it be offensive these days to call an anti-modernist Evangelical Christian a "fundamentalist?"
Asked by Dan Fefferman
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Oct 11, 2025, 03:40 PM
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