Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South, impeccably Fundamentalist and anti-Evolutionist, met at San Antonio. It was chiefly concerned with reviving the ancient doctrine of the scriptural subordination of woman to man, with the repeal of woman's right to sit on its executive boards, with repudiation of the Federal Council of Churches, and with investigation of the alleged liberality of its missionaries in the realms of faith...
Presbyterian liberals have been rejoicing these last two months on a matter of finance. Official figures still remain unknown, but it is definitely asserted that, in spite of Fundamentalist attempts to boycott the Foreign Missions board, the church has raised its entire budget, and, in addition, $700,000 to wipe out last year's deficit...
There are now nearly 400,000 Christians in China, said he; but the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy has added to the difficulties of presenting to the remaining 400,000,000 the Christian faith in its essential simplicity...
...over 30 years, before which he was rector of Grace Church, Lawrence. Among the degrees he has received are an L.L.D. from Princeton, Cambridge, and Lawrence Universities, and D.D. from Durham, Yale, and Columbia. His recent book, "Fifty Years," has been one of the most influencial factors in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy...
...Fundamentalist believes there is only one truth, that there never was or never will be any other truth but the Bible. We believe there is a growing evolving truth, and that there is no such thing as static truth. There is however such thing as developing through human experience, and the evolutionary hypothesis seems to be a very natural explanation of that...