1958 Presidential Address

Abstract

"The history of evangelical Christianity, both in America and in Europe, has been sufficiently traced by others so that no detailed consideration of it is needed at present, even if time permitted. In America in particular the conservative reaction to the rising liberalism in religion was named Fundamentalism, although many of the stalwart supporters of the evangelical position never accepted this particular name. Among the stout-hearted defenders of the traditional conservative position were numbered many outstanding biblical and theological scholars. They were men who believed in the eternal Truths of God; in His personal revelation in Christ, the liv ing Word Who became flesh; and in the inspired record of God's complete plan and purpose for man in the Hebrew-Christian Scriptures"