Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accept or Get Out? Ordained a Baptist, Fosdick showed his opinion of denominationalism by becoming (in 1919) the associate minister of Manhattan's wealthy First Presbyterian Church. There he touched off a controversy between Modernists and Fundamentalists which made Page-One news and rocked U.S. Protestantism to its foundations. One Sunday morning in 1922, Fosdick delivered a blistering sermon, in which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin...
...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...
Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, did not return to Britain merely to have his head modeled by modernist Sculptor Jacob Epstein. From Indian sources in London, TIME was informed last week that the British Government had drafted a new, far-reaching, administrative plan for India. The chief planner was Viscount Wavell, who brought with him to London Sir Francis Mudie, constitutional expert of the Indian Civil Service, and Rao Bahadur Menon, secretary of the Reforms Committee of the Indian Assembly...
...Forty-six-year-old progressive John J. Sherman of the Minneapolis Star-Journal sent the Cincinnati show a swirling, semi-abstract Minnesota Landscape by Minneapolis Modernist Mac Le Sueur...