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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815823803321

Autore

Longfield Bradley J.

Titolo

The Presbyterian controversy : fundamentalists, modernists, and moderates / / Bradley J. Longfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-774050-2

1-280-53484-2

9786610534845

0-19-802290-5

0-19-535871-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Religion in America series

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

285/.1/09042

Soggetti

Modernist-fundamentalist controversy

Presbyterian Church - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p301-324. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Conflict Erupts: Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Presbyterian Church; 2. J. Gresham Machen: Princeton Theology and Southern Culture; 3. William Jennings Bryan and the 1923 General Assembly; 4. Henry Sloane Coffin and the Auburn Affirmation; 5. Clarence E. Macartney and the 1924 General Assembly; 6. Charles R. Erdman and the 1925 General Assembly; 7. The Reorganization of Princeton and the Birth of Westminster; 8. Robert E. Speer and the Board of Foreign Missions; 9. The Close of the Controversy: The Entanglement of Religion and Culture; Epilogue; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the lives and thought of six major figures involved in the bitter controversy between fundamentalists and modernists that wracked the American Presbyterian Church in the 1920s and 1930s.