Word: fundamentalistism
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...haven't scratched the surface of Biblical knowledge yet. We don't know one-tenth of the truth, historically speaking. And the sporting thing to do is for all of us to wait, to reserve judgment, until that knowledge comes into our possession. That goes for Fundamentalists and Modernists alike. The die-hard Fundamentalist is quite wrong, I think, in insisting upon a word-for-word and letter-for-letter correctness of the King James version. And the Modernist-the extremist at the other end-he's just as wrong in leaping to snap judgments and wild...
Readers of the first installment were prepared by an editorial note for "inconsistencies in punctuation and spelling which appeared in the original manuscript, intended by Dickens only for the eyes of his children and not for the printer." What they were not prepared for was the anti-Fundamentalist credo in the second paragraph...
...Manhattan met the Presbyterian League of Faith, militant Fundamentalist organization to which some 1,200 of the 10,000 U. S. Presbyterian ministers belong. Unabashed by the trouncing administered them at the last Presbyterian General Assembly (TIME, June 5), the Fundamentalists proclaimed they are holding their line, unanimously nominated as their candidate for moderator at next Assembly Rev. Dr. Harold S. Laird, 42, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington...
What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the pastor-executive-publicist. He is entertaining and vivacious, but restrained in comparison with the thunderers of half a century ago. He speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent...
...Warren Badenock Straton, son of the late Fundamentalist John Roach Straton, attended the Briarcliffe house-party, "gave a short testimony, never joined the Group...