Original sentence: Among some of the other liberalizing trends were the ordination of women to the offices of elder and deacon, the ratification of a pro-choice position on abortion by the General Assembly, and the rejection by that assembly of the plenary verbal inspiration of the Bible, considered by conservatives as a touchstone dogma.Having been eventually defeated numerous times in the General Assembly by a coalition of the liberals and moderates from the 1960s onward, some PCUS conservatives, primarily from non-metropolitan parts of the Deep South, founded what today is the Presbyterian Church in America in late 1973, formally citing its rationale as "[a] long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture" on the part of PCUS leaders.However, in the immediate years after World War II, many ministers and churches, especially in larger cities, began to adopt a more modernist understanding of doctrine and church life.Some evangelicals, however, remained in the PCUS in order to contend for their beliefs.Today, this is the largest Presbyterian denominational body in the country, with over 2.3 million congregants
Edited sentence: ), which is now the largest Reformed/Presbyterian denominational body in the country, with over 2.3 million congregants.Among some of the other liberalizing trends were the acceptance of the ordination of women to the offices of elder and deacon, the ratification of a pro-choice position on abortion by the General Assembly, and the rejection by that assembly of the plenary verbal inspiration of the Bible, considered by conservatives as a touchstone dogma.Having been eventually defeated numerous times in the General Assembly by a coalition of the liberals and moderates from the 1960s onward, some PCUS conservatives, primarily from non-metropolitan parts of the Deep South, founded the Presbyterian Church in America in late 1973, formally citing its rationale as "[a] long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture" on the part of PCUS leaders.However, in the immediate years after World War II, many ministers and churches, especially in larger cities, began to adopt a more modern understanding of doctrine and church life.Some evangelicals, however, remained in the PCUS in order to contend for their beliefs, rejecting the way of separatism