Word: modernistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Roach Straton, noted Fundamentalist, and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick equally noted Modernist, are among the speakers on the December calendar of Phillips Brooks House Association, announced yesterday. Both these men will discuss some phase of this most acute of religious controversies, of which they represent the opposite points of view...
Honegger's arresting translation into musical terms of the progress of a powerful locomotive hurtling through the night met with a reception almost unprecedented for a modernist composer...
Reverend Potter has been identified with the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy in theological circles as an aggressive upholder of the Modernists. In a debate last year in New York City in which he encountered the Reverend John Roach Straton as his opponent Reverend Straton won the verdict of the judges...
...remove "the cause of irritation" was for Dr. Fosdick to enter the New York Presbytery. Whether or not the Assembly expected Dr. Fosdick to do this, could not be guessed, but the Assembly well knew that no such assertions as those Dr. Fosdick made two years ago in the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy could be held compatible with the Presbyterian Confession of Faith. One of these assertions was that a belief in the virgin birth was not essential to Christianity...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick is again the center of public attention. Seen in historical perspective, the "Modernist" controversy is the logical issue of Luther's successful revolt against authority in the sixteenth century. Since every new step in matters of importance is almost certain to crystallize the liberal and conservative tempers of men into rival camps of champions and opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce...