A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
were not new, but the movement itself was.
The editors of The Fundamentals were A. C. Dixon
and R. A. Torrey. The authors included Benjamin B.
Warfield, H. G. Moule, James Orr, Charles Erdman, and
others. They came from the United States and the United
Kingdom and from many denominations.
For a number of years, the Fundamentalists and the
Modernists struggled for control of the major Protestant
denominations and seminaries. Eventually Liberal and
Neo-Orthodox views won the day. As a result, many
Fundamentalists left their denominations and institutions
and formed their own. For example, John Gresham
Machen, a Presbyterian professor, left Princeton
Theological Seminary and founded Westminster
Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He was also instrumental
in founding what became known as the Orthodox
Presbyterian Church (1936). Other Fundamentalist organizations
that came into existence were the Independent
Fundamental Churches of America (1930), the General
Association of Regular Baptist Churches (1932), the
Bible Presbyterian Church (1938), and the Conservative
Baptist Association of America (1947).
These denominations have remained small. In addition
to them, there are many independent Fundamentalist
churches, including the independent Bible churches and
Baptist churches. The largest defender of Fundamentalist
doctrine became the Southern Baptist Convention, one of
the few major groups to maintain its conservative theological
identity.
The first attempt at forming an association of
Fundamentalists was the World’s Christian Fundamentals
Association (1919). In 1941, Carl McIntire, a fiery radio
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