Presbyterian Controversy Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates

Name: Presbyterian Controversy Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates
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ISBN: 9780195064193

ISBN-10: 0195064194

ISBN-13: 9780195064193

Edition: 1991

Authors: Bradley J. Longfield

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From 1922 to 1936 the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. was torn by conflict. Fundamentalists, led by Clarence E. Macartney, William Jennings Bryan, and J. Gresham Machen, modernists, guided by Henry Sloane Coffin, and moderates, directed by Charles R. Erdman and Robert E. Speer, struggled over theological questions and their implications for such issues as ordination requirements, the role of Princeton Theological Seminary, and foreign missions. The church managed to maintain its institutional unity at the height of the conflict in the mid-1920s, but the struggle resulted in a loosening of the church's doctrinal standards, the reorganization of Princeton Seminary, the founding of…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/28/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.56" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Bradley J. Longfield is Dean and Professor of Church History at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates.

Introduction	p. 3
The Conflict Erupts: Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Presbyterian Church	p. 9
J. Gresham Machen: Princeton Theology and Southern Culture	p. 28
William Jennings Bryan and the 1923 General Assembly	p. 54
Henry Sloane Coffin and the Auburn Affirmation	p. 77
Clarence E. Macartney and the 1924 General Assembly	p. 104
Charles R. Erdman and the 1925 General Assembly	p. 128
The Reorganization of Princeton and the Birth of Westminster	p. 162
Robert E. Speer and the Board of Foreign Missions	p. 181
The Close of the Controversy: The Entanglement of Religion and Culture	p. 209
Epilogue	p. 231
Notes	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 301
Index	p. 325
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