Dissertation Information for William Robert Glass NAME: - William Robert Glass
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1991)
ADVISORS: - Dan T. Carter
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - None
MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected
Title: The development of northern patterns of fundamentalism in the South, 1900-1950
Abstract: Despite past associations and present notoriety as the element of southern religion that leads to the region's characterization as the Bible belt, fundamentalism was not native to the South. Developing primarily northern and midwestern cities from the 1890s through the 1910s, it was a movement marked with a distinctive theology and by a militant opposition to liberalism. This concern for theology led to particular patterns of controversy in the North as fundamentalists during the 1920s tried to reverse the growing influence of liberals within their denominations. The appearance of this system of beliefs in the South in the early twentieth century resulted from the enlistment of some southern Protestants with the consequence leading to disputes within southern churches similar to those that had developed in the north.
Southerners learned fundamentalism in the same way as northerners, from itinerant Bible teachers in Bible conferences. Fundamentalist institutions developed in the South in the 1920s and 1930s as they did in north and were an important part of the emerging network of fundamentalist schools and organizations. Moreover, these southern schools significantly expanded the range of fundamentalist educational institutions. During these same years, a more liberal sentiment began developing among some southern Protestants, leading to the introduction of northern patterns of fundamentalist controversy into southern denominations during the 1930s and 1940s. These battles for the control of southern denominations did not cover the same ground as in the North, but they were fought with a fundamentalist passion and a fundamentalist perspective defining the terms of battle.
By the early 1950s, disputes within the fundamentalist movement over ecclesiological separation had reshaped alliances among southern fundamentalists and the institutional structure of the movement in the South. It became three movements, each with several branches. One part remained within the denominations seeking to reverse the influence of liberalism within their traditions. Another part separated itself to form separate denominations and fellowships along the lines of the theological traditions they left. The third part was interdenominational but divided on the issue of ecclesiological separation with one faction identifying with separatist organizations and another trying to remain faithful to its principles of cooperation with all theologically conservative factions regardless of denominational affiliation.
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