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The Congregationalists and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy

July 24, 2024
The Fundamentals: A Testimony, "Compliments of Two Christian Laymen," n.d. Image No. 4656.

By Kazimierz Bem [1]

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Thanks to excellent research by Bradley Longfield (and others) the Fundamentalist-Modernist struggle among the Presbyterians is well known. In contrast, the Congregationalists are often portrayed as the more liberal, modernist sister...

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Guest Blogger
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American History, Fundamentalism
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Journal Interview: Bradley Longfield on the Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict

January 15, 2020
Bradley Longfield's article appears in the Fall/Winter 2019 Journal.

The latest issue of The Journal of Presbyterian History features an article by Bradley Longfield, Professor of Church History at Dubuque Theological Seminary. Dr. Longfield writes about the early twentieth century Fundamentalist-Modernist conflict through the...

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Fred T
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Fundamentalism, New York, Bradley Longfield
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Fighting for the Right: the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and West Jersey Presbytery

November 9, 2019

--by Douglas McVarish

On March 27, 1938, Rev. Carl McIntire preached his last sermon at the Collingswood Presbyterian Church. Following the conclusion of his sermon, the congregation marched out of the church singing "Faith of Our Fathers." Shortly after, the doors of the Gothic Revival church were locked as the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) denomination regained control of the property.

The following Sunday, a reported 1,223 worshippers met in a...

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Guest Blogger
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Fundamentalism, New Jersey
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Portland Deliverance

October 8, 2015

Note: This is the third of three blog posts on Fundamentalism and Presbyterians to run in 2015. Read the previous posts here.

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Thousands of Presbyterians will gather in Portland over the next nine months for the PC(USA)’s Fall Polity and General Assembly, many traveling by plane across the country.

When Thomas Atherton, a commissioner from Lackawanna...

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David K
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American History, Fundamentalism
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William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Monkey Trial

June 12, 2015
 
July 2015 marks the 90th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial, one of the most famous court cases in American history. Defending substitute high school teacher John Thomas Scopes was Clarence Darrow, one of the celebrity lawyers of the day. William Jennings Bryan—the “Great Commoner,” three-time Democratic nominee for President, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. ruling elder—argued for the prosecution, the State of Tennessee, which alleged that Scopes had broken the...
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David K
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American History, Fundamentalism
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