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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II INSPIRATION Mant of my readers will recall that seething decade 1883-93, when all the doctrines of Christianity were put in the crucible. Not to go beyond our own land, it was the time when the Andover professors were turning Christianity up from the bottom in their search for the eternally true in it and their effort to state that truth in modern terms, and though nothing could be less exciting than the moderate and scholarly way they went about this task, they made a sensation that was world-wide. It was the time--largely as a result of this Andover movement--when one of the most famous and useful missionary societies in the world, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was thrown into the throes of bitter controversy over the question whether the churches which supported the Board should have the deciding voice as to the theology of the candidates offering for service, or whether the officers of the Board could decline applicants because of alleged liberal views. It was the time when the Union Theological Seminary professors in New York were feeling the Presbyterian symbols and traditions too galling, were seeking relief and found it; when one of their number, the stormy petrel of that time, Dr. Charles A. Briggs, though always conservative in essentials, was causing any amount of trouble to his less forward fellow Presbyterians, more by reason in part of his angry way of irritating them by his characterization of their views, and was finally suspended for heresy, but found refuge in the wide-open arms of the Protestant Episcopal sister. It was the time when Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati was having the same trouble over the too progressive advance of their two biblical professors, Llewelyn J. Evans and Henry Preser...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151184438
- ISBN 13 9781151184436
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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