Will Fundamentalism eventually triumph?

I read something in Greta Vosper's book 'With or without God' that really got my attention. Greta quoted Lloyd Geering who in an article titled ‘Fundamentalism: the Challenge to the Secular World’ (www.religion-online.org) quoted Kirsopp Lake who in 1925 (86 years ago) predicted that the church is shrinking from the left. He said that the fundamentalists (the right) will eventually triumph in the church. They will drive the 'experimentalists ' (the radicals) out of the church and then reabsorb the 'Institutionalists' (liberals) who under pressure will become more orthodox.

This got my attention because it was 86 years ago and was a prediction about the future and is exactly what I think is happening today. Will fundamentalism eventually triumph? I hope not and I don’t want to be forced out of the church.

Lake said that it was more difficult for experimentalists to establish a viable identity because they had no firm belief structure. It is much easier for fundamentalists and conservatives to brand their version of Christianity. They know what they are on about and can articulate it clearly and quickly because it is made up of rigid doctrines and dogma. The challenge for those of us who hold less rigid views, those who want to experiment, is to find ways to brand Christianity differently than the branding done by more theologically conservative and fundamentalist Christians. This branding has to stand apart from the branding of fundamentalists and reflect a definite direction, not rigid, not dogmatic, but meaningful, inclusive, authentic, spiritually enriching, life enhancing, passionately committed to loving action, to social justice, to mercy, to forgiveness and to making this a better world.

Fundamentalism: the Challenge to the Secular World by Lloyd Geering 

http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2732&C=2437p?title=2732&C=2437