Word: fundamentalistism
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...Episcopalians have remained above the Fundamentalist-Modernist rows, especially in Britain. Their chief unrest concerns merging the national Church of England with some older communion-Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy. Suggestions that they merge with some one of the re¬formed sects have been coldly received...
...Modernists, a comparatively small group led by Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin of Manhattan. Their attitude, theological and political, is noncombative and rather Olympian save for a few retorts and counter-attacks upon the Fundamentalists. They put forward no candidate for Moderator, and while their vote was responsible for the election of the Moderate candidate, it constituted but a small portion of the entire ballot, which was, theologically speaking, preponderantly Fundamentalist...
...Election. To oppose the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator...
...intolerance, evil-speaking, misjudgments and unwarranted publication of slanders. It transferred the responsibility for unrest in the Presbyterian Church to well-known causes such as the War, modern science, the mechanical age and lack of home training. It reaffirmed belief in the virgin birth of Christ and other Fundamentalist tenets but held "that the Presbyterian system admits of diversity of view when the core of truth is identical." It asked for the commission's continuance for another year to study the constitutional questions involved?i.e., delayed decision in the matter of the New York Presbytery until a quieter...
...pastored by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, attended and largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton of Manhattan and Dr. William B. Riley of Minneapolis. Prolonged applause hailed every fundamentalist speaker. "Praise the Lord," shouted the delegates. The modernists, themselves true and loyal brethren, sat silent. Clearly the fundamentalists had a majority. On the third day excitement...