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“Rather than emphasizing God’s transcendence or challenging the dominance of scientific inquiry, fundamentalists argued that the Bible itself was the most authoritative source of factual truth. The dispute with higher criticism was thus not about faith versus science but about which framework—modernist historical inquiry or scriptural inerrancy—held the power to define reality.”
― Henry Walter Spaulding III, Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology