The question of God, along with the question of the Bible, is, it seems to me, the central theological question in the Western church today. Secondly, modernity has made us preoccupied with factuality, with scientifically verifiable facts and with historically reliable facts. I mean modern Western culture. Within the church, both biblical fundamentalists and liberals have been preoccupied with factuality. For fundamentalists, the Bible must be factually true in order for it to be true at all, and hence all of this concern with defending the factuality of scripture.
Fundamentalists are profoundly modern.
They identify truth with factuality. We liberals have tended to follow a different strategy. We have tried to save a few facts from the fire. This is what I mean when I say, we, fundamentalists and liberals alike, are fact-fundamentalists. This has had a pervasive and distorting effect on how we see scripture and tradition, indeed religion itself.