The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism
Americans appear to want definitive answers, and the claim of infallibility—either for the pope or for the Bible—seems to suit that need.
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Endnotes
These are the “Five Points,” held to be “essential and necessary” teachings of the Church by the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1910. See Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972).
The best book on Loisy is in French: Raymond de Boyer de Sainte Suzanne, Alfred Loisy, entre la foi et l’incroyance (Paris: Centurion, 1968).