Word: fundamentalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest Presbyterian church in the world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...
Editors of the volume are venerable John Dewey and a fellow philosopher, Professor Horace M. Kallen of Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Although Earl Russell is now safely berthed as a lecturer in the Barnes Foundation art school near Philadelphia, the authors believe the triumph of "fundamentalist clerics, machine politicians and professional patriots" who had him ousted from C.C.N.Y. remains a peril to freedom of learning in the U.S. Some of their points...
Tell such a man that you are not a Darwinian, and he will usually conclude that you must be a Fundamentalist. If you do not believe in the economic interpretation of history, you must be a "mystical Tory." If you are not a materialist, you must be an idealist. "Ours is a scientific world, a literate world, saturated with -I will not say, the precise ideas of the three materialists-but surely with their deeper spirit, their faith in matter, their love of system, their abstract scientism, and their one-sided interpretation of Nature." How directly their theoretical ideas have...
...word "fundamentalist" went unspoken, but Dr. Smith's nominators stressed the "orthodoxy" and "genuineness" of his Presbyterianism. Dr. Coffin's supporters praised him for making Manhattan's Union Seminary (which left the Presbyterian fold in the 'gos when the General Assembly suspended Professor Charles Augustus Briggs from the ministry for "liberal" interpretations of the Old Testament) a school of vital evangelical theism...
With his fellow members of the building committee, Industrialist Irwin made no hasty move towards modernism. Fundamentalist in thinking as well as in faith, they first set down their desires in a joint credo of architectural aims and religious belief...