The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth by R.A. Torrey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
In the early part of the twentieth century a controversy in the church erupted between the modernists and the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists got their name from the fact that they published an enormous number of booklets defending “the fundamentals,” by which they mean the infallibility of the Bible, the deity of Christ, etc. Those booklets were published in four volumes, and I have to say that I am quite proud of my fundamentalist fathers. They acquitted themselves well, and with great learning. They were (to my view) a tad too accommodating with some things (e.g. age of the earth), but for the most part they held the line wonderfully.
The last essay in Volume 1 has this marvelous line, addressing the modernists, who haven’t changed a bit in the last century.
“A striking characteristic of these people is a persistent ignoring of what is written on the other side.”
The date marks my completion of the first volume. I will note when I finish the other three volumes in the body of the text here.