In Pursuit of Purity : American Fundamentalism since 1850.

by David O. Beale

Paperback, 1986

Call number

BX7800.F863B4 1986

Publication

Greenville, S.C. : Unusual Publications, c1986.

Physical description

xiv, 457 p.; 24 cm

Notes

CONTENTS

Abbreviations.
Foreword, by Bob Jones.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: The Fountainheads of Fundamentalism, 1857-1920.
1. Defining Fundamentalism.
2. The Prayer Meeting Revivals and Early Believers' Meetings.
3. Old Niagara Bible Conference and Her Fruits.
4. The Scofield Reference Bible and The Fundamentals.
5. The American Bible and Prophetic Conferences, 1878-1914.
6. The Development of American Liberalism.
7. Transdenominational Responses to Liberalism.
8. The World's Christian Fundamentals Association.

Part II: Presbyterian Fundamentalism to 1930.
9. The Old Guard.
10. Presbyterian Beginnings in America.
11. Presbyterian Seminaries and Fundamentalism.
12. The Rise of Princeton Theological Seminary.
13. Famous Heresy Trials and the Five Fundamentals.
14. The Turbulent Twenties--Controversies over the Fundamentals.
15. The Fall of Princeton Theological Seminary.

Part III. Baptist Fundamentalism to 1930.
16. The Deep Roots of Controversy.
17. Issues of Alarm.
18. Baptist Fundamentalism Organized.
19. The Matter of Baptist Confessions.
20. Fortifications and Forgeries.
21. Facing Defections and Defeats.
22. Fundamentalist Fatalities.
23. There Was Murder in the Students' Hearts.

Part IV: Separatist Fundamentalism Since 1930.
24. The Changing Face of Liberalism.
25. Fundamentalism's Transdenominational Vitality in the 1930s and 1940s.
26. The Challenge of Broad Evangelicalism.
27. Robert T. Ketcham--Patriarch of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.
28. William Bell Riley--His Life and Legacy.
29. The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship and the Conservative Baptist Movement.
30. Historical Backgrounds of Methodism.
31. Methodist Battles for the Faith.
32. Westminster Seminary and the Foreign Missions Controversy.
33. The Bible Presbyterian Controversies.
34. The Free Presbyterian Church.

Part V: Fundamentalism Today.
35. New Expressions of Fundamentalism Since 1950.
36. Fundamentalism Facing the Future.
37. For Reference Only.

Reference Helps.
Appendices.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.

Barcode

003a139000

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