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1 Overview
The Controversy is conventionally dated as beginning
in 1922 with a sermon by a well-recognized and articulate spokesman for liberal Protestantism, Harry Emerson Fosdick. Fosdick, a liberal Baptist preaching by special permission in First Presbyterian Church, New York,
delivered his sermon Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"
highlighting dierences between liberal and conservative
Christians. The ending of the controversy was marked by
J. Gresham Machen and a number of other conservative
Presbyterian
theologians and clergy leaving the denomA Fundamentalist cartoon portraying Modernism as the descent
ination
in
1936
to establish the Orthodox Presbyterian
from Christianity to atheism, rst published in 1922 and then
[1]
used in Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan. Church.
Although this schism is called the Fundamentalist
The FundamentalistModernist Controversy was a Modernist Controversy in the Presbyterian church, very
religious controversy in the 1920s and '30s within the similar and far-reaching reactions against the growth of
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America that liberal Christianity have also occurred in other major
later created divisions in most Christian denominations Protestant denominations. At the time of the Controas well. The major American denomination was torn by versy, Presbyterians were the fourth-largest Protestant
conict over the issues of theology and ecclesiology. Un- group in the United States. (The Methodists were the
derneath those struggles lay profound concerns about the largest, followed by the Baptists and the Lutherans; the
role of Christianity in the culture and how that role was Episcopalians were in fth place.) After considerable
to be expressed.[1]
internal tensions, every major Protestant denomination
Ernestine van der Wall, a Professor of the History of came to accommodate liberalism within the denominaChristianity at Leiden University in the Netherlands, in- tion, to one degree or another. Often, some disgruntroduces the following origins of the characterization of tled conservatives left their denomination, some of them
establishing smaller denominations with fundamentalistthe controversy.
conservative foundations. Sensitized by what they saw
to be successful liberal inltration into other denominaAll in all the new scientic approach to
tions, in the 1970s Southern Baptist conservatives began
the Bible caused men and women to ask thema concerted eort to rid their institutions and leadership
selves whether the Bible was merely a collecof liberal leanings. This resulted in the Southern Baption of myths, legends, and folklore, whether
tist Convention conservative resurgence and occasioned
there was a kernel of history in it and if so,
the creation of two new Baptist denominations which acwhat that kernel contained. The imagery of
commodate the modernist theological position. A simithe kernel and the husk was immensely poplar event took the form of the Seminex controversy of the
ular in modernist discourse. Actually it was
Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod.
a modern rephrasing of a much older distincThis process resulted in the modern division of Protestant
American religious life into mainline Christianity on the
one hand and evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity on the other. As such, the FundamentalistModernist
Controversy in the Presbyterian Church is part of a wider
tion in religious history, that between the necessaria and non-necessaria, the fundamentals
and non-fundamentals of faith. The fundamentals, of course, was the term Christian
conservatives in the United States made their
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set of developments in American religious life. However, it also contained many aspects that were continuations of long-term conicts within American Presbyterianism. Also, the Controversy in the Presbyterian Church
received disproportionate attention in the press because
of the prominent role played in it by William Jennings
Bryan.
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2.1
Background
The Old-SideNew-Side Split (1741
58) and the Old-SchoolNew-School
Split (183869)
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, headquarters of the New School Presbyterians (1910)
BACKGROUND
1758. The second was the Old SchoolNew School Controversy, which occurred in the wake of the Second Great
Awakening and which saw the Presbyterian Church split
into two denominations starting in 1836-38.
In 1857, the new school Presbyterians divided over
slavery, with the southern New School Presbyterians
forming the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church.
In 1861, the Old School Presbyterians split, with the
Southern Presbyterians taking on the name the Presbyterian Church of the Confederate States of America (which
would be renamed the Presbyterian Church in the United
States in 1865). In 1864, the United Synod merged with
PCCSA, with the Southern New School Presbyterians ultimately being absorbed into an Old School Denomination, and in 1869, the Northern New School Presbyterians returned to the Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America.
Although those Controversies involved many issues, the
overarching issue had to do with the nature of church authority and the authority of the Westminster Confession
of Faith. The New Side/New School opposed a rigid interpretation of the Westminster Confession. Rather they
preferred an emotional style of religion that made use of
revival techniques. They were much more likely to ordain as clergy men who had not received a university education; were more lax in the degree of subscription to
the Westminster Confession they required; and were generally opposed to using heresy trials as a means to ensure the orthodoxy of the clergy. They accused the Old
Side/Old School of being dry formalists who fetishized
the Westminster Confession and Calvinism at the expense
of an emotional encounter with the Bible mediated by
the Holy Spirit. The Old Side/Old School responded that
the Westminster Confession was the foundational constitutional document of the Presbyterian Church and that,
since the Confession was simply a summary of the Bible's
teachings, the church had a responsibility to ensure that
its ministers preaching was in line with the Confession.
They accused the New Side/New School of being much
too lax about the purity of the church, and willing to allow Arminianism, unitarianism, and other errors to be
taught in the Presbyterian Church. They criticized the
New Side/Schools revivals as being emotionally manipulative and shallow. Another major division had to do
with their attitude towards other denominations: New
Siders/Schoolers were willing to set up parachurch ministries to conduct evangelism and missions and were willing to cooperate with non-Presbyterians in doing so. The
Old Siders/Schoolers felt that evangelism and missions
should be conducted through agencies managed by the denomination and not involving outsiders, since this would
involve a watering down of the churchs theological distinctives. The two sides also had dierent attitudes towards their seminary professors: Princeton Theological
Seminary, the leading institution of the Old School, demanded credal subscription and dedicated a large part of
its academic eorts to the defense of Calvinist Ortho-
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2.2
in 1880, with A. A. Hodge, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, initially serving as Briggs co-editor.
In 1881, Briggs published an article in defense of W.
Robertson Smith which led to a series of responses and
counter-responses between Briggs and the Princeton theologians in the pages of The Presbyterian Review. In
The rise of Higher Criticism and the 1889, B. B. Wareld became co-editor and refused to
publish one of Briggs articles, a key turning point.
Briggs Aair, 188093
In 1891, Briggs was appointed as Unions rst-ever Professor of Biblical Theology. His inaugural address, entitled The Authority of Holy Scripture, proved to be
highly controversial. Whereas previously, Higher Criticism had seemed a fairly technical, scholarly issue, Briggs
now spelt out its full implications. In this address, he
announced that Higher Criticism had now denitively
proven that Moses did not write the Pentateuch; that Ezra
did not write Ezra, Chronicles or Nehemiah; Jeremiah did
not write the books of Kings or the Lamentations; David
only wrote a few of the Psalms; Solomon did not write the
Song of Solomon or Ecclesiastes and only a few Proverbs;
and Isaiah did not write half of the book of Isaiah. The
Old Testament was merely a historical record, and one
which showed man in a lower state of moral development,
with modern man having progressed morally far beyond
Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Judah, David, and Solomon. At
any rate, the Scriptures as a whole are riddled with errors
and the doctrine of scriptural inerrancy taught at Princeton Theological Seminary is a ghost of modern evangelicalism to frighten children.[3] Not only is the Westminster Confession wrong, but the very foundation of the
Confession, the Bible, could not be used to create theological absolutes. He now called on other rationalists in
the denomination to join him in sweeping away the dead
orthodoxy of the past and work for the unity of the entire
church.
The inaugural address provoked widespread outrage in
the denomination, and led Old Schoolers in the denomination to move against him, with Francis Landey Patton taking the lead. Under the terms of the reunion of
1869, General Assembly had the right to veto all appointments to seminary professorships, so, at the 1891 General
Assembly, held in Detroit, Old Schoolers successfully
got through a motion to veto Briggs appointment, which
passed by a vote of 449-60. The faculty of Union Theological Seminary, however, refused to remove Briggs,
saying that it would be a violation of scholarly freedom.
In October 1892, the faculty would vote to withdraw from
the denomination.
In the meantime, New York Presbytery brought heresy
charges against Briggs, but these were defeated by a vote
of 94-39. The committee that had brought the charges
then appealed to the 1892 General Assembly, held in
Portland, Oregon. The General Assembly responded
with its famous Portland Deliverance, arming that
the Presbyterian Church holds that the Bible is without error and that ministers who believe otherwise should withdraw from the ministry. Briggs case was remanded to
BACKGROUND
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2.4
The movement to revise the Westmin- As a result of these changes, the Arminian-leaning
ster Confession of Faith, 19001910
Cumberland Presbyterian Church petitioned for reuni-
In 1909, there was heated debate in the New York Presbytery about whether or not to ordain three men who refused to assent to the doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus.
(They did not deny the doctrine outright, just said that
they were not prepared to arm it.) The majority eventually ordained the men; the minority complained to the
General Assembly and it was this complaint that would
form the basis of the subsequent controversy.
Under the order of the Presbyterian Church in the USA,
General Assembly was not authorized to accept or dismiss this complaint. It should have demitted the complaint to the presbytery, and could have done so with instructions that the presbytery hold a heresy trial. The
result of this trial could then be appealed to the Synod
of New York and from there to the General Assembly.
However, the 1910 General Assembly, acting outside its
scope of authority, dismissed the complaint against the
three men and at the same time instructed its Committee
on Bills and Overtures to prepare a statement for governing future ordinations. The committee reported, and the
General Assembly passed the Doctrinal Deliverance of
1910. This Deliverance declared that ve doctrines were
Lyman Stewart (18401923), Presbyterian layman and conecessary and essential to the Christian faith:
The inspiration of the Bible by the Holy Spirit and
the inerrancy of Scripture as a result of this.
founder of Union Oil, who funded the publication of The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth (191015).
In 1915, the conservative magazine The Presbyterian published a conservative manifesto that had been in circula4 The Fundamentals and Back to tion within the denomination entitled Back to Fundamentals. Liberal Presbyterian magazines replied that if
Fundamentals
conservatives wanted a ght, they should bring heresy
In 1910, a wealthy Presbyterian layman, Lyman Stew- charges in the churchs courts or else keep quiet. No
art, the founder of Union Oil and a proponent of charges were brought.
dispensationalism as taught in the newly published It is worth pointing out that the only people who acScoeld Reference Bible, decided to use his wealth to tually embraced the name fundamentalist during the
sponsor a series of pamphlets to be entitled The Funda- 1910s were committed dispensationalists, who elevated
mentals: A Testimony to the Truth. These twelve pam- the premillennial return of Christ to the status of a funphlets, published between 1910 and 1915 eventually in- damental of the Christian faith. None of the fundamencluded 90 essays written by 64 authors from several de- talist leaders (i.e. Machen, Van Til, Macartney) in the
nominations. The series was conservative and critical Presbyterian Church were dispensationalists.
Ecumenism, 190821
However the debate between modernists and conservatives over the issue of the IWM was small compared to
the Church Union debate. In 1919, the General Assembly sent a delegation to a national ecumenical convention
that was proposing church union, and in 1920, General
Assembly approved a recommendation which included
organic union with 17 other denominations - the new
organization, to be known as the United Churches of
Christ in America, would be a sort of federal government for member churches: denominations would maintain their distinctive internal identities, but the broader
organization would be in charge of things like missions
and lobbying for things like prohibition. Under the terms
of presbyterian polity, the measure would have to be approved by the presbyteries to take eect.
The plans for Church Union were roundly denounced
by the Old School Princeton Theological Seminary faculty. It was at this point in 1920 that Princeton professor
J. Gresham Machen rst gained prominence within the
denomination as a fundamentalist opponent of Church
Union, which he argued would destroy Presbyterian distinctives, and eectively cede control of the denomination to modernists and their New School allies. However,
chinks were starting to show in the Princeton facultys armor. Charles Erdman and the president of the seminary,
William Robinson, came out in favor of the union.
Ultimately, the presbyteries defeated church union by a
vote of 150-100 in 1921.
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Led by Macartney, the Presbytery of Philadelphia requested that the General Assembly direct the Presbytery
of New York to take such actions as to ensure that the
teaching and preaching in the First Presbyterian Church
of New York City conform to the Westminster Confession of Faith. This request would lead to over a decade of
bitter wrangling in the Presbyterian Church.
By 1905, Bryan had concluded that Darwinism and the
Throughout the proceedings, Fosdicks defense was led modernism of Higher Criticism were allies in promoting
liberalism within the church, thereby in his view underby lay elder John Foster Dulles.
mining the foundations of Christianity. In lectures from
1905, Bryan spoke out against the spread of Darwinism,
7 William Jennings Bryan and the which he characterized as involving the operation of the
law of hate - the merciless law by which the strong crowd
General Assembly of 1923
out and kill o the weak, and warned that it could undermine the foundations of morality. In 1913 he became
Now that Bryan had linked Darwinism and Higher Criticism as the twin evils facing the Presbyterian Church,
Harry Emerson Fosdick responded by defending Darwinism, as well as Higher Criticism, from Bryans attack. In
the early 1920s, Bryan and Fosdick squared o against
each other in a series of articles and replies in the pages
of the New York Times.
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Confession, but leave the matter to New York Presbytery,
which was investigating. The Committees minority report recommended a declaration re-arming the denominations commitment to the Five Fundamentals of 1910
and to require New York Presbytery to force First Presbyterian Church to conform to the Westminster Confession.
A ery debate ensued, with Bryan initially seeking a compromise to drop the prosecution of Fosdick in exchange
for a rearmation of the Five Fundamentals. When this
proved impossible, he lobbied intensely for the minority
report, and was successful in having the minority report
adopted by a vote of 439-359.
Even before the end of General Assembly, this decision was controversial. 85 commissioners led an ocial
protest, arguing that the Fosdick case was not properly
before the General Assembly, and that, as the General
Assembly was a court, not a legislative body, the Five
Fundamentals could not be imposed upon church ocers without violating the constitution of the church. At
the same time, Henry Sloane Con of Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church in New York City issued a statement
saying that he did not accept the Five Fundamentals and
that if Fosdick were removed from his pulpit, they would
need to get rid of him too.
New York Presbytery, which had been ordered by General Assembly to deal with Fosdick, adopted a report that
essentially exonerated Fosdick of any wrongdoing.
In June 1923, New York Presbytery ordained two men
Henry P. Van Dusen and Cedric O. Lehman who
refused to arm the virgin birth.
On December 31, 1923, Henry van Dyke publicly relinquished his pew at First Presbyterian Church, Princeton
as a protest against Machens fundamentalist preaching.
Van Dyke would ultimately return to his pew in December 1924 when Charles Erdman replaced Machen in the
pulpit.
Two weeks after the General Assembly of 1923, 36 cler- In May 1924, the Auburn Armation was republished,
gymen met in Syracuse, New York, and, using Nichols along with supplementary materials, and now listing
paper as a base, ultimately issued a declaration known to 1,274 signatories.
history as the Auburn Armation.
The Auburn Armation opened by arming the Westminster Confession of Faith, but argued that within
American Presbyterianism, there had been a long tradition of freedom of interpretation of the Scriptures and
the Confession. General Assemblys issuance of the Five
Fundamentals not only eroded this tradition, but it ew in
the face of the Presbyterian Churchs constitution, which
required all doctrinal changes be approved by the presbyteries. While some members of the church could regard the Five Fundamentals as a satisfactory explanation
of Scriptures and the Confession, there were others who
could not, and therefore, the Presbyteries should be free
to hold to whatever theories they saw t in interpreting
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Lehman was referred to the Synod of New York for ap- be responsible for agnostic Modernism triumphing in the
propriate action.
Presbyterian Church.
On the question of Harry Fosdick, moderates in 1924
steered debate away from his theology and towards matter of polity. As Fosdick was a Baptist, General Assembly
instructed First Presbyterian Church, New York to invite
Fosdick to join the Presbyterian Church, and if he would
not, to get rid of him. Fosdick refused to join the Presbyterian Church and ultimately resigned from his post at
First Presbyterian Church in October.
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The majority of the faculty in 1920 remained convinced Old Schoolers, including J. Gresham Machen and
Geerhardus Vos. However, to combat a perceived lack
of training in practical divinity, a number of more moderate New Schoolers were brought in, including Charles
Erdman and J. Ross Stevenson, who by 1920 was the
12 The Special Commission of president of the seminary. As we saw above, the tension between Old Schoolers and moderates revealed it1925 and the General Assembly self in debates about the proposed Church Union of
1920; Machens anti-liberal preaching which resulted in
of 1926
the public fall-out with Harry van Dyke; the controversy
about Erdmans approach to the League of Evangelical
The Special Committee appointed at the General Assem- Students; and splits about how to deal with the splits in
bly of 1925 consisted mainly of moderates. The com- the wider church.
mittee solicited testimony from both sides, and received
By 1925, the Old Schools majority on the faculty was
statements from Machen, Macartney, and Con.
threatened, but the selection of Clarence Macartney to reAt the 1926 General Assembly, another moderate, W.O. place outgoing Professor of Apologetics William Greene
Thompson, was elected as moderator.
seemed to solidify the Old School majority on the faculty.
The Special Committee delivered its report on May 28. It However, when Macartney turned the job down, Machen
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was oered the job.
Before he could accept or refuse, however, General Assembly intervened, and in the 1926 General Assembly,
moderates succeeded in securing a committee to study
how to reconcile the two parties at Princeton. (The seminary was governed by a board of directors subject to the
supervision of General Assembly.) (On a sidenote, some
members of the General Assembly seem to have been
wary of Machen because of his opposition to Prohibition.)
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Disapproving of General Assemblys decision not to appoint a new slate of conservatives to the Board of Foreign Missions, J. Gresham Machen, along with H. McAllister Griths, announced that they were forming an
Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions to
truly promote biblical and Presbyterian work. Macartney
refused to go along with Machen in setting up an independent missions board.
The 1934 General Assembly declared that the Independent Board violated the Presbyterian constitution and
ordered the Board to cease collecting funds within the
church and ordered all Presbyterian clergy and laity
to sever their connections with the Board or face disciplinary action. (This motion was opposed by both
Macartney and Henry Sloane Con as overly harsh.)
Less than a month later, New Brunswick Presbytery
asked Machen for his response. He replied that General Assemblys actions were illegal and that he would not
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shut down the Independent Board. The presbytery consequently brought charges against Machen including violation of his ordination vows and renouncing the authority
of the church. A trial was held, and in March 1935, he
was convicted and suspended from the ministry.
Macartney urged Machen to compromise, but he refused.
In June 1935, he set up the Presbyterian Constitutional
Covenant Union. In October, the split between Macartney and Machen spread to Westminster Seminary, where
the faculty, led by Machen, called on the board of trustees
to announce their support of the Independent Board of
Foreign Missions and the Covenant Union. Thirteen
trustees, including Macartney, refused to do so and resigned in 1936.
Eight ministers, including Machen, were tried in the General Assembly of 1936. They were convicted and removed from the ministry. Machen then led the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union to form a new denomination, the Presbyterian Church of America, later
forced to change its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian
Church in 1939.
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Legacy
As a result of the departure of Machen and the denominational conservatives, especially of the Old School, the
shape of the Presbyterian Church in the USA as a modernist, liberal denomination was secured. The PCUSA
would eventually merge with the United Presbyterian
Church of North America in 1958 to form the United
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and
in 1983, the UPCUSA would merge with the Presbyterian
Church in the United States (the Southern Presbyterians who had split with the PCUSA in 1861 due to
the Civil War) to form the current Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.).
FOOTNOTES
tury, with modernists seeing fundamentalists as intolerant, and fundamentalists seeing modernists as overly willing to compromise with the forces of secularism, abandoning authentic Christianity in the process.
16 See also
Conict thesis
Continuity thesis
17 Footnotes
[1] Longeld, Bradley J. (2000). For Church and Country:
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conict in the Presbyterian Church. The Journal of Presbyterian History 78 (1):
3550. JSTOR 23335297.
[2] van der Wall, Ernestine (2007). The Enemy within: Religion, Science, and Modernism. Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
ISBN 978-90-71093-59-3.Template:Page 35
[3] Dorrien, Gary (2001). A Compend of Heresies. The
Making of Liberal Theology - Imagining Progressive Religion 1805-1900. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 358
60. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
[4] Gray, Asa (May 28, 1874). Darwin Correspondence
Project Essay: What is Darwinism?". The Nation. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
[5] Mathisen, Robert R. (editor) (November 2001). Critical
Issues in American Religious History: A Reader. Baylor
University Press. p. 462. ISBN 978-0-918954-79-4.
[6] Moran, Jerey P. (April 20, 2002). The Scopes Trial: A
Brief History with Documents. Palgrave Macmillan. p.
16. ISBN 978-0-312-29426-7.
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The Pluralistic Vision: Presbyterians and Mainstream Protestant Education and Leadership. ed.
Milton J. Coalter, John M. Mulder, and Louis B.
Weeks (1992)
[14] Conn, Peter (January 28, 1998). Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. London: Cambridge University Press.
pp. 148154. ISBN 978-0-521-63989-7.
[15] Smylie, James H (January 2004). Pearl Bucks Several
Worlds and the Inasmuch of Christ. Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
[16] Hutchison, William R. (November 1, 1993). Errand to
the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions. University Of Chicago Press. pp. 169170. ISBN
978-0-226-36310-3.
[17] Vinz, Warren L. (June 1997). Pulpit Politics: Faces of
American Protestant Nationalism in the Twentieth Century.
State University of New York Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-07914-3175-7.
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Further reading
19 External links
The Scoeld Reference Bible (1909) (the online version is the 1917 edition)
The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, edited
by R.A. Torrey (191015)
The Origins of Pauls Religion by J. Gresham
Machen (1921)
Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1922)
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Shall Unbelief Win?" by Clarence E. Macartney
(1922)
In His Image by William Jennings Bryan (1922) at
Project Gutenberg
Who is Fundamental?" from Time magazine
(1923)
Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
(1923)
The Auburn Armation (1924)
H.L. Menckens newspaper columns on the Scopes
Trial (July 1720, 1925)
William Jennings Bryans Testimony at the Scopes
Trial (July 20, 1925)
Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymens Inquiry after
One Hundred Years by William Ernest Hocking
(1932) archive.org free book to read
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