American Decades
Important Events in Religion, 1910–1919
1910
- The Presbyterian General Assembly adopts a declaration of "essential" doctrines, to be used in examining theology professors and students for doctrinal orthodoxy. The "five points" included in the declaration are the inerrancy of Scripture, the Virgin Birth of Christ, his substitutionary atonement (the idea that his death provided forgiveness of sins), his bodily resurrection, and the authenticity of the miracles.
- A census records 540,000 Jews living in New York City, with most on the Lower East Side. This figure represents approximately 25 percent of the country's total Jewish population.
- Jane Addams, whose Chicago settlement house had provided the model for many Social Gospel churches and missions, publishes a retrospective, Twenty Years at Hull House.
- In February, the Fundamentalist movement in American Protestantism begins to take shape with the publication of the first volume,...
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1910's Religion
