The Accidental Modernists: American Fundamentalism and the Canadian Controversy over Church Union
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 soc...
| Published in: | Church history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Church history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Canada
/ Machen, John Gresham 1881-1937
/ Presbyterian Church
/ Vereinigte Kirche von Kanada
/ Geschichte 1925
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640717000026 |