Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other big U. S. church has Fundamentalism excited so many people so frequently for so long as it has in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Grounded in the beliefs of the 19th Century, Presbyterian Fundamentalism continued to exist long after many a good religionist decided he could yield a little to science without harming his soul. But sometime after 1920 Presbyterian Fundamentalists suddenly awoke to what they called the Menace of Modernism in their midst. Their church, they vowed, should forth with be purged of those who did not believe as they did. In the pulpit...
Bryan might win in Tennessee but Fundamentalism grew progressively weaker and weaker, after the great "Monkey Trial." Presbyterian Fundamentalists tried in vain to halt a move to liberalize their Church's oldest, richest and most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan...
...made that city, by their presence, the capital of U. S. orthodoxy. Near Philadelphia they established their seminary. In Philadelphia they set up a house organ, Christianity Today, in whose columns they proceeded to flay their opponents, often impolitely. In Philadelphia last year they formed the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, which their Church soon outlawed (TIME, April 23 et seq.). And in Philadelphia this year they brought heresy charges against eleven local ministers who had signed the liberal Presbyterian "Auburn Affirmation." The charges were dismissed...
...motion. They believe they have lately had notable success with the Psalms. And last week Miss St. Denis had ready a dance-pageant which she and a "rhythmic choir" were to present this week at the Riverside ("Rockefeller") Church of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, later at the Rutgers Presbyterian Church on upper Broadway. Miss St. Denis plans further appearances in Manhattan churches and a new pageant next Easter. A sincere believer in what she is doing, she writes thus of her religio-artistic feelings: "The dance is the sport of God, spontaneous, harmonious, continuous. By renunciation, discipline, and unfoldment...
Walter Brooks was a 3-year-old moppet, romping on a Virginia plantation, when a tall, lean Presbyterian clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed...