Shall the Fundamentalists Win?

A Century After the Question: They Have.

On May 21, 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick preached one of the most important and influential sermons of the twentieth century: “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” In the sermon, Fosdick accused conservative Christians, who insisted on things like a literal virgin birth and biblical inerrancy, of being anti-intellectual and intolerant. Within weeks, the sermon…