Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tight-shut fundamentalist mind, there was nothing much Catholicism could say. In arguing with the liberals, says Father Baum, "we used to begin with the Bible regarded simply as an historical record, trying to show that Jesus, the man Jesus, claimed to be of divine origin and that He proved His claims by prophecy and miracles. Then we showed that he founded a Church, a community of believers on the rock of the apostles, endowed with certain notes or visible properties. The church with these properties can still be found today: it is the Catholic Church...
Died. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, 93, for 68 years a Presbyterian minister and church leader, who, during a doctrinal fight of the 1920s, served as a mediator between his own fundamentalist wing and the opposing liberal wing of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., in 1925 as moderator of the general assembly staved off a schism in the church; of heart disease; in Princeton...
Protestant clergymen openly joined in the attack. New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, a leader of the nationwide Fundamentalist movement, denounced Smith as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress." Virginia's Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. thundered at Smith in sermons and pamphlets, organized a South-wide movement of drys dedicated to his defeat. Moderator Hugh K. Walker of the Presbyterian General Assembly called upon all Protestant churchmen to "fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith...
Knowing only too well that the fittest survive in politics, Andrews last week removed Fundamentalist Howell from his post, is looking for a less conspicuous spot to put him in. In Washington State's modern school system, the missing link is now John M. Howell...
...Bible is the word of God, containing everything necessary for man's salvation, higher education should consist of little more than studying it. This kind of reasoning produced that formidable 19th century institution, the Bible college, in which fundamentalist fervor was the school spirit, Darwin's was the team to beat, and the professor who knew his stuff was the man who could find the applicable verse in the Good Book. In this secularist midcentury, academic acceptance of the Bible college has declined toward the vanishing point. But this month marks the centennial celebration of a dramatic exception...