Word: literalist
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...miracle that nobody can solve and nobody can duplicate." Lawrence Oilman: "In later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely the devoted literalist, and becomes the inexplicable lifegiver, the master of a secret vision and an incommunicable speech, known only to himself and to his peers...
...Fosdick, since he was a Baptist and since, there- fore, they might win a victory by ousting him from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were by no means sure of even legalistic success. This made Dr. Fosdick the spokesman of non-Literalist Christianity. Upon him devolved the duty of presenting a "reasonable" Christianity which was not merely a milk & water diet of ethical excellencies. This crisis does not pass. And because it does not pass Dr. Fosdick can pack any church anywhere any time...
...Machen is a great and learned theologian, a philosopher among preachers. Also he is a literalist. He interprets the Bible strictly, and that has made him vastly unhappy at Princeton, for the greater number of the authorities there have been opposed to his views. When he was named for the Chair of Apologetics, the Board of Directors fought with the Board of Trustees over the appointment. That has been the scandal of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. The General Assembly a year ago would not order the appointment. Three weeks ago at San Francisco the General Assembly...