Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...logical issue of Luther's successful revolt against authority in the sixteenth century. Since every new step in matters of importance is almost certain to crystallize the liberal and conservative tempers of men into rival camps of champions and opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce the new tendencies. It saw that a tactful request to Dr. Fosdick to accept the Presbyterian articles of faith, or resign...
Presbyterian Assembly. Himself an ex-Moderator (1913-14), he found the delegates tremendously excited about the election of a Moderator- Chair man and chief executive of the Church. Among the candidates was Clarence Edward Macartney, 44, of Philadelphia, a bitter-ender, a die hard, a Fundamentalist. Dr. Stone was informed that Presbyterian politicians had packed the Assembly with enough votes to elect Macartney. He was told that the final balance of power had been secured when 18 Negroes were secretly pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election...
...Macartney was elected, 464-446. He at once appointed die-hards to all the important committee chairmanships. He made Mr. Bryan Vice Moderator. So implacable was the Fundamentalist machine that J. M. T. Finney, eminent surgeon of Johns Hopkins, lost his temper. Clenching his fists, he turned to the Philadelphia delegation saying: "This is Philadelphia ward politics of the worst kind...
...this politics was merely preliminary to the chief purpose of the Fundamentalists which was to kill Modernism once and forever. Specifically this means ousting Harry Emerson Fosdick from his pulpit in Manhattan. Then it means ousting several professors like Charles P. Fagnani of Union Theological Seminary, and, if possible, a group of educated ministers like Henry Sloane Coffin, Henry Van Dyke, William Pierson Merrill. Then it means the domination of the missionaries, by ejecting them from their not particularly lucrative jobs if they refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends...
...wonder whether I am a Modernist or Fundamentalist, especially as I come from New York, but you will not wonder nor make any mistake when you know that I come from what we call the right end of Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn, thank God, is still the City of Churches, and is still the City of Christian faith. Heresies originate in New York, not in Brooklyn...