“Our Church Will Be On Trial": W. M. McPheeters and the Beginnings of Conservative Dissent in the Presbyterian Church in the United States
Historians of American Fundamentalism have generally ignored the South and its denominations, convinced that Fundamentalism was a northern, urban movement and that southern churches were largely conservative until after the Second World War. As this essay demonstrates, however, Fundamentalism was al...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2006, Volume: 84, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-66 |
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| Summary: | Historians of American Fundamentalism have generally ignored the South and its denominations, convinced that Fundamentalism was a northern, urban movement and that southern churches were largely conservative until after the Second World War. As this essay demonstrates, however, Fundamentalism was alive and well in the Presbyterian Church in the United States in the late 1920s. Led by W. M. McPheeters, conservatives in the church attempted to discipline two prominent progressive churchmen, Hay Watson Smith and E. T. Thompson. As a result of their failure to discipline either minister, conservatives began to network and organize in order to preserve their “beloved Southern Presbyterian Church." |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Presbyterian history
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