in Christianity *fundamentalism* is often seen as the crown-jewel representation and expression of modernity. Indeed, it was birthed out of the height of modernist interpretation of religion.

I don’t think calling fundamentalism the "crown-jewel" representation of Christianity is necessarily accurate. In fact, I think it shows a bias in surveying the intellectual history of the Church in the 20th century. It could easily be said that the "crown-jewel" of the modernist interpretation of religion was liberal Protestantism with its accomodation to higher critism, scientific naturalism, and optimism in the human spirit—all profoundly modern ideas that fudamentalism saught to repudiate.

True, fundamentalism is "modern" in its presuppositions, and was expressed in modern terms, but it certainly was not the "crown-jewel" of modern Christianity. However, it of course, has its failings; the most obvious one being the "house-of-cards" mentality it perpetuates. This, I believe, is what it is clearly expressed at least in the above writing of Mohler.