The Conflict between Modernism and Traditionalism.

The Auburn Affirmation.

Quelling Unrest.

Supporting the Affirmation.

Setting a Pattern.

The struggle between the Fundamentalists and modernists set the path of the Presbyterian Church for the rest of the century. In the coming decade questions over the role of missionaries and who could go into the mission field racked the church once again, and the conservatives left what they perceived as a hollow shell of the Reform tradition.

Sources:

Randall Balmer and John R Fitsmeier, The Presbyterians (Westport, Conn Greenwood Press, 1993), Ned B Stonehouse, J Gresham Machen A Biographical Memoir (Grand Rapids, Mich Eerdmans, 1954)