Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost ex officio, Harry Emerson Fosdick has carried the fundamentalist-modernist war into the Baptist church. In accepting the pastorate of the Park Avenue church, Dr. Fosdick prescribed liberal terms of church membership. And although the church refused to force the issue with the central body of Baptists and hence failed to send delegates to the Northern Baptist convention now assembled in Washington; nevertheless the convention itself forced the issue. A proposal from the fundamentalists was introduced to define the term Baptist in such a way as to eliminate from membership in Baptist churches all but those received by immersion...
...moderator is the son of onetime Negro slaves; is 58; a graduate of Fisk University and of Yale (Bachelor of Divinity) ; holds "progressive" rather than modernist religious views...
...gain, as shown in the following table, was less than in recent years, chiefly because of the restriction of immigration from Catholic countries. The increase of other denominations grew from the spirited evangelical activities of the year and, doubtless, also from the religious thought induced by the current fundamentalist-modernist and religion-evolution controversies...
...Reformed might be termed modernist, the Orthodox fundamentalist. Between the two is the Conservative, a compromise which varies with the constitutions and by-laws of the particular congregation. Sometimes the determining on the fine points of such compromise creates bitter controversy (TIME, Mar. 30, RELIGION...
...finds that they are vitally important, are, in fact, the most important differences which exist among Christians. Before varieties of Christians can deal unitedly with practical matters they must, says the world-circling Bishop, "face problems of faith and order, of sacrament and authority." Herein the Bishop, an intellectual modernist, departs from the American liberals, whose inclination is to sidestep questions of faith and order, of sacrament and authority. Secondly, it is widely supposed that the non-Catholic churches have come, or are rapidly coming, to close cooperation. But according to Bishop Brent, the Stockholm conference revealed that the breach...