Word: fundamentalistism
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...Modernist position had seldom been stated so bluntly. A Fundamentalist Presbyterian group in Philadelphia accepted Fosdick's challenge and objected so insistently and so violently that the Presbyterian General Assembly was forced to ask Fosdick to become a Presbyterian. He refused, on the grounds that the ministry should not be a denominationally "closed shop...
...Kenneth Macrae of Stornoway, Hebrides, was boiling mad. Mincing no words, he told the Edinburgh assembly of the fundamentalist Free Church of Scotland (the "Wee Frees") that the church should break relations with the Y.M.C.A. The Y, he had discovered, was condoning modernist doctrines and "worldly amusements," and had put out a scandalous booklet for servicemen. Told in the Huts. Without further ado, the shocked assembly passed the resolution. Next day, it learned that the objectionable booklet was about France and Gallipoli during World War I, and had been out of print for 25 years...
...thing handsome fundamentalist Chaplain Gatlin felt he had a right to do was to win sailors to Christ. In eight months, he converted 31 men. But the Navy found the Kentucky-born chaplain's sawdust-trail activities "embarrassing and disquieting," asked him to resign. When he stood his ground and refused, he was put on the inactive list (TIME, July...
...Christian Beacon, weekly publication of the fundamentalist Bible Presbyterian Church again trained its guns on the U.S. Navy. Four of its eight tabloid-size pages were spattered with editorials, copies of official letters, affidavits concerning a Southern Baptist Navy chaplain who was relieved of active duty "because of his extremely zealous evangelistic inclinations [which were] embarrassing and disquieting to the associates in the Navy...
...fundamentalist offshoot of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Another offshoot: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Difference: Bible Presbyterians ban all liquor; Orthodox Presbyterians permit beer and wine...