In pursuit of purity : American fundamentalism since 1850 /

Beale, David, 1944-,

In pursuit of purity : American fundamentalism since 1850 / [print] David O. Beale. - Greenville, South Carolina : Unusual Publications, (c)1986. - xiv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.



Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. The fountainheads of Fundamentalism, 1857-1920 -- Defining Fundamentalism -- The prayer meeting revivals and early believers' meetings -- Old Niagara Bible Conference and her fruits -- The Scofield Reference Bible and the Fundamentals -- The American Bible and Prophetic Conferences: 1878-1914 -- The development of American liberalism -- Transdenominational responses to liberalism -- The World's Christian Fundamentals Association -- Part II. Presbyterian fundamentalism to 1930 -- The old guard -- Presbyterian beginnings in America -- Presbyterian seminaries and Fundamentalism -- The rise of Princeton Theological Seminary -- Famous heresy trials and the five fundamentals -- The turbulent twenties : controversies over the Fundamentals -- The fall of Princeton Theological Seminary -- Part III. Baptist fundamentalism to 1930 -- The deep roots of controversy -- Issues of alarm -- Baptist fundamentalism organized -- The matter of Baptist confessions -- Fortifications and forgeries -- Facing defections and defeats -- Fundamentalist fatalities -- There was murder in the students' hearts -- Part IV. Separatist fundamentalism since 1930 -- The changing face of liberalism -- Fundamentalism's transdenominational vitality in the 1930s and 1940s -- The challenge of broad evangelicalism -- Robert T. Ketcham : patriarch of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches -- William Bell Riley : his life and legacy -- The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship and the conservative Baptist movement -- Historical backgrounds of Methodism -- Methodist battles for the faith -- Westminster Seminary and the foreign missions controversy -- The Bible Presbyterian controversies -- The Free Presbyterian Church -- Part V. Fundamentalism today -- New expressions of fundamentalism since 1950 -- Fundamentalism facing the future -- For reference only -- Reference helps.



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