Virgin Birth was regarded as one of the fundamentals of the faith during the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy, a divisive era in the North American church that began in the late nineteenth century but generated its greatest explosions after World War I. This doctrine is in fact explicitly mentioned only twice in the New Testament, in Matthew and in Luke: Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to