World's Christian Fundamentals Association, was an interdenominational organization founded in 1919 by the
Baptist
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...
minister
William Bell Riley
William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor.
Biography
In 1878, at the age of 17, Riley publicly professed faith in Ch ...
of the
First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was originally formed to launch "a new Protestantism" based upon
premillennial
Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. Premillennialism is based upon a literal interpretat ...
interpretations of biblical prophecy, but soon turned its focus more towards opposition to
evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...
.
See also
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American Council of Christian Churches
References
Denominational alliances
Christian fundamentalism
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