American Decades
Gaebelein, Arno C. 1861-1945
FUNDAMENTALIST EDITOR
The Fundamentals.
With the publication, between 1910 and 1915, of The Fundamentals, the fundamentalist Christian movement became a more organized and prominent Protestant voice in American religion during the 1910s. Conservative Protestants such as Reuben A. Torrey and Amzi Dixon, an editor of The Fundamentals, hotly debated modernist and liberal theologians such as Shirley Jackson Case and Shailer Mathews, both of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Among the strongest voices of fundamentalist Christianity was that of Arno C. Gaebelein, the editor of one of fundamentalism's sturdiest platforms, the monthly magazine Our Hope. Gaebelein was himself a contributor to The Fundamentals, with interpretation of biblical prophecy as his specialty. He had been active in the nascent fundamentalist movement during the 1890s and remained vehemently attached to...
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1910's Religion
