Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Developments in other Protestant communions on the Fundamentalist- Modernist battle-line...
...enter into the controversy now raging on various religious matters. The debate in New York between the Rev. Dr. Charles Francis Potter and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, upon the infallibility of the Bible developed a quantity of material deserving scrutiny. Dr. Straton, who was upholding the Fundamentalist Side, lost track of just what he was trying to prove and subsequently lost the debate; but as the judges very properly observed in their announcement, the two clergymen had failed prior to the encounter to agree upon a definition of "infallibility very liberally, and relied chiefly on fulfilled prophecies...
...birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known. Many churchmen are outspoken against the movement, as, for instance, Archbishops Mundelein of Chicago and Hayes of New York, Dr. John Roach Straton and other Catholic and Fundamentalist leaders. Justice John Ford of New York, John S. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield of New York and Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago are other leading opponents...
...fundamentalist movement is not new," The Very Reverend Edmund S. Rousmaniere '83, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The present outbreak in all denominations of Protestant churches is merely an indication on the surface of a battle which has been waged for centuries...
...Rousmaniere is in perfect agreement with the Modern Churchmen's Union, the organ of the liberal Episcopal group. "We can no longer hold a conception of God which reigned at the time the creeds were formulated," he said. "We have advanced to what we call a deeper conception." The fundamentalist insists on belief in facts about God; the liberal holds that belief in the idea of God is all important...