The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and ModeratesOxford University Press, 25.11.1993 - 352 Seiten This extensive reference work, hailed by the Journal of Religion as "a book long needed by historians of American religion", offers "a unique contribution to this often-told story by providing an in-depth analysis of seven persons intimately involved in the controversy" (Theology Today). 13 halftone illustrations. |
Inhalt
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3 William Jennings Bryan and the 1923 General Assembly | 54 |
4 Henry Sloane Coffin and the Auburn Affirmation | 77 |
5 Clarence E Macartney and the 1924 General Assembly | 104 |
6 Charles R Erdman and the 1925 General Assembly | 128 |
7 The Reorganization of Princeton and the Birth of Westminster | 162 |
8 Robert E Speer and the Board of Foreign Missions | 181 |
The Entanglement of Religion and Culture | 209 |
Epilogue | 231 |
Notes | 237 |
Bibliography | 301 |
Index | 325 |
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The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates Bradley J. Longfield Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1991 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Culture argued assembly Auburn Affirmation believed Bible biblical Board of Foreign Broadening Church Bushnell century Charles Erdman Christ civilization Clarence E Clarence Macartney Coffin Papers Coletta College concern conservative Darwinism declared Defender divorce doctrine ecclesiastical Erdman Papers evangelical evolution faculty Foreign Missions Fosdick Fundamentalism and American fundamentalist God's Henry Sloane Coffin Horace Bushnell Ibid idem inerrancy insisted intellectual issue James Henley Thornwell Jesus John June liberal Loetscher Macartney Papers Macartney's Machen Papers maintained Marsden ministry missionary modern modernist Moody moral nation Noyes Nykamp Old School orthodoxy pastor Patterson Philadelphia preaching Pres Presbyterian Church Presbyterian Conflict Presbyterian controversy Presbyterian History Princeton Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton Theology Protestant quoted Reformed Presbyterian religion religious Robert Robert E Scriptures secular sermon Social Gospel Southern Presbyterian Speer Papers Spirit Stonehouse teaching Thornwell thought tradition truth Union unity University Press Warfield Westminster William Jennings Bryan wrote Yale York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - '"community to doubt the genuineness and ''"authenticity of the Scriptures; to question the reality and obligations of religion ; to hesitate, undeciding, whether there be any such thing as virtue or vice ; whether there be an eternal state of retribution beyond the grave; or whether there exists any such being as God, you have broken down the +barriers of moral virtue, and hoisted the floodgates of immorality and crime.
Seite 12 - ... in essentials like religion, ethics, philosophy; in history, literature, art; in the concepts of all science, except perhaps mathematics, the American boy of 1854 stood nearer the year 1 than to the year 1900.
Seite 66 - The Darwinian theory represents man as reaching his present perfection by the operation of the law of hate — the merciless law by which the strong crowd out and loll off the weak.
Seite 239 - Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972); a more compact account is by Winthrop S.
Seite 24 - The union shall be effected on the doctrinal basis of the Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, as revised in 1903, and of its other doctrinal and ecclesiastical Standards; and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments shall be acknowledged as the inspired Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
Seite 44 - Other religions may appeal to the sword, or seek some other way to propagate themselves. Christianity makes its appeal to right reason, and stands out among all religions, therefore, as distinctively "the Apologetic religion.
Seite 164 - The Eighteenth Amendment was the high point of the struggle to assert the public dominance of old middle-class values. It established the victory of Protestant over Catholic, rural over urban, tradition over modernity, the middle class over both the lower and the upper strata.
Seite 66 - ... frame has crumbled into dust. A belief in immortality not only consoles the individual, but it exerts a powerful influence in bringing peace between individuals. If one really thinks that man dies as the brute dies, he may yield to the temptation to do injustice to his neighbor when the circumstances are such as to promise security from detection. But if one really expects to meet again, and live eternally with, those whom he knows to-day, he is restrained from evil...
Seite 22 - Inspiration, ie that the Scriptures not only contain, but ARE THE WORD OF GOD, and hence that all their elements and all their affirmations are absolutely errorless, and binding the faith and obedience of men.
Seite 35 - ... sanction it as any other social condition of man. The Church was formally organized in the family of a slaveholder; the relation was divinely regulated among the chosen people of God; and the peculiar duties of the parties are inculcated under the Christian economy. These are facts which cannot be denied. Our argument then is this: If the Church is bound to abide by the authority of the Bible, and that alone, she discharges her whole office in regard to slavery, when she declares what the Bible...