A study of the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy in the 1920s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America - Focusing on the Dispute between Fosdick and McCartney

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 53-90
Author(s):  
Jong Cheol Shin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Presbyterian Church

The Race Problem and Presbyterian Union

1962 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Reimers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
The North ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Race Problem

After nearly a century of division the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the southern church) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the northern church) attempted to unite in 1954. The southern Presbyterians voted against the merger and kept America's two largest Presbyterian bodies divided. Although little was said concerning race relations during the debates on unification, there is reason to believe that the race issue was extremely important in the defeat of the plan in the South. Two sociologists, perhaps exaggerating, have concluded that it was the key factor in the failure of union. In 1955 the moderator of the southern church told the General Assembly of the North that he felt the Negro question, in particular the Supreme Court's decision on school desegregation, affected the vote; and the organ of the North, Presbyterian Life, echoed this opinion.

scholarly journals A Brief Sketch of the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

1896 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2-38
Author(s):  
Thomas Cary Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Presbyterian Church

Alexander, W. A.A Digest of the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, from its organization to the Assembly of 1887, inclusive, with Certain Historical Notes. Richmond, Va.: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1888.

The Accidental Modernists: American Fundamentalism and the Canadian Controversy over Church Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-144
Author(s):  
Phyllis D. Airhart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
United Church Of Canada ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
Presbyterian Church In Canada ◽  
The Church

This article looks at confessional family resemblances between the fundamentalist controversy in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the church union controversy in Canada. These resemblances have been obscured by focusing on the doctrinal dimensions of the former and the socio-institutional features of the latter. The role of the prominent American fundamentalist J. Gresham Machen in the transformation of Canadian unionists into modernists sheds light on the underlying tensions that sparked the two controversies, as well as the distinctive dynamics of the resistance to church union that shaped the confessional identity of both the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the United Church of Canada after 1925.

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