Riley's Empire
Northwestern Bible School and Fundamentalism in the Upper Midwest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5111633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Vance Trollinger (College of the Ozarks, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-212 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3167186 |
| OpenAlex | W2130505647 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
In the 1920s a loosely united band of militant conservatives launched a crusade to capture conrol of the major Protestant denominations. These fundamentalists staunchly affirmed the supernatural character and literal accuracy of the Bible, the supernatural character of Christ, and the necessity for Christians to separate themselves from the world. Most often Baptists and Presbyterians, they struggled to reestablish their denominations as true and pure churches: true to the historic doctrines of the faith as they perceived them, and pure from what they saw as the polluting influences of an increasingly corrupt modern culture. But by the late 1920s the fundamentalists had lost the fight. Not only were they powerless minorities in the Northern Baptist and the Northern Presbyterian denominations, where the struggle for control had been the fiercest, but many perceived them as uneducated, intolerant rustics. The Scopes trial cemented this notion in the popular consciousness
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The roots of fundamentalism
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Voices of American Fundamentalism
The Country Life Movement in America, 1900-1920
The Fundamentalist Controversy, 1918-1931
The "Country Life Movement" and the American Churches
Boddie of Essex, England and Virginia
Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942
Samuel Bangs
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |