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In Christian theology, '''Modernism''' is a hostile term used by its enemies to attack the tendency of [[Liberal Christianity]] toward revision of certain Christian doctrines such as the [[Virgin Birth]] and the [[Resurrection]] of Christ, or subjecting the Bible to the [[Higher Criticism]]. Modernism was the target of [[Fundamentalism|the Fundamentalists]] after 1910, and was an especially bitter issue in the 1920s.

In Christian theology, '''Modernism''' is a hostile term used by its enemies to attack the tendency of [[Liberal Christianity]] toward revision of certain Christian doctrines such as the [[Virgin Birth]] and the [[Resurrection]] of Christ, or subjecting the Bible to the [[Higher Criticism]]. Modernism was the target of [[Fundamentalism|the Fundamentalists]] after 1910, and was an especially bitter issue in the 1920s.

== Presbyterians ===

=== Presbyterians ===

Different views of the role of Christianity in the face of the growth of modern science and research methods fueled the conflict between the liberal modernist and conservative fundamentalist factions of the Presbyterian Church during the 1920s-30s. Modernists such as [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]], Henry Sloane Coffin, and Robert E. Speer promoted inclusiveness and denied the inerrancy of scripture, while fundamentalists such as [[J. Gresham Machen]], Clarence MacArtney, and [[William Jennings Bryan]] defended traditional doctrine. The fundamentalist cause, popularly identified with antievolutionism, was damaged during the [[Scopes Trial|trial in Tennessee of biology teacher John Scopes in 1925 for teaching eolution. In 1929, fundamentalist leaders Machen and Macartney left their positions at the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] to found the [[Westminster Theological Seminary]] to defend the reformed faith.<ref> Bradley J. Longfield, "For Church and Country: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict in the Presbyterian Church". ''Journal of Presbyterian History'' 2000 78(1): 34-50. 0022-3883 </Ref>  

Different views of the role of Christianity in the face of the growth of modern science and research methods fueled the conflict between the liberal modernist and conservative fundamentalist factions of the Presbyterian Church during the 1920s-30s. Modernists such as [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]], Henry Sloane Coffin, and Robert E. Speer promoted inclusiveness and denied the inerrancy of scripture, while fundamentalists such as [[J. Gresham Machen]], Clarence MacArtney, and [[William Jennings Bryan]] defended traditional doctrine. The fundamentalist cause, popularly identified with antievolutionism, was damaged during the [[Scopes Trial|trial in Tennessee of biology teacher John Scopes in 1925 for teaching eolution. In 1929, fundamentalist leaders Machen and Macartney left their positions at the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] to found the [[Westminster Theological Seminary]] to defend the reformed faith.<ref> Bradley J. Longfield, "For Church and Country: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict in the Presbyterian Church". ''Journal of Presbyterian History'' 2000 78(1): 34-50. 0022-3883 </Ref>  

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==See also==

==See also==

* [[Fundamentalism]]

* [[Fundamentalism]]