Post by richardklein on Aug 3, 2015 9:36:31 GMT -6
What’cha think?
If the truth be told “I was robbed!” Someone or more stole another vocabulary word from me and all of us. It’s the word “Fundamentals” slightly revised to “Fundamentalist.” I am a Fundamentalist and hold the Fundamentals. So, what are the “Fundamentals and what is/was a “Fundamentalist?” I remember several years ago asking the President of a major seminary that same question at a “brown bag lunch” and he just stood there mumbling something incoherent.
The Fundamentals were a series of twelve volumes of articles published in Chicago between 1910 and 1915 as a witness to the central doctrines and experiences of Protestant Christianity, and as a defense against several modernist movements at the time, some cults, and the mean-spirited harsh criticisms, of unorthodox Christianity. Curiously, there is an article in the set of twelve refuting “Socialism” among the eighty plus written pieces.
The Fundamentals, subtitled “A Testimony to the Truth,” is associated with the founding of Fundamentalism as a restatement of orthodox Christianity in opposition to the rising tide of evolutionary thinking and liberal theology arising at that time.
The Fundamentals originated out of and was editorially controlled by persons in the Bible school, revival, and independent church movements associated with the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, California and the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Illinois. As a group, the “Fundamentals” represented the last of the Victorian orthodoxy of their era. About three million copies of the twelve volumes were distributed in the first several decades following their publication.
The Fundamentals were especially important at the time of their publication because there was a need to defend historic Christian truth against the vicious attacks made by Darwinists and the destructive critics of the Biblical record. The particular doctrines that needed especial support were: 1) the inspiration and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, 2) the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, 3) the virgin birth of Christ (and thereby Christ not possessing a fallen Adamic nature), 4) the vicarious atonement of Christ for the sins of the entire world, 5) and the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ and of all those who put their faith in Him as their personal savior.
Since I hold these five aforementioned truths, then that certainly makes me a “Fundamentalist” and not a terrorist! So, give us a break!
Dr. Rich Klein
If the truth be told “I was robbed!” Someone or more stole another vocabulary word from me and all of us. It’s the word “Fundamentals” slightly revised to “Fundamentalist.” I am a Fundamentalist and hold the Fundamentals. So, what are the “Fundamentals and what is/was a “Fundamentalist?” I remember several years ago asking the President of a major seminary that same question at a “brown bag lunch” and he just stood there mumbling something incoherent.
The Fundamentals were a series of twelve volumes of articles published in Chicago between 1910 and 1915 as a witness to the central doctrines and experiences of Protestant Christianity, and as a defense against several modernist movements at the time, some cults, and the mean-spirited harsh criticisms, of unorthodox Christianity. Curiously, there is an article in the set of twelve refuting “Socialism” among the eighty plus written pieces.
The Fundamentals, subtitled “A Testimony to the Truth,” is associated with the founding of Fundamentalism as a restatement of orthodox Christianity in opposition to the rising tide of evolutionary thinking and liberal theology arising at that time.
The Fundamentals originated out of and was editorially controlled by persons in the Bible school, revival, and independent church movements associated with the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, California and the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Illinois. As a group, the “Fundamentals” represented the last of the Victorian orthodoxy of their era. About three million copies of the twelve volumes were distributed in the first several decades following their publication.
The Fundamentals were especially important at the time of their publication because there was a need to defend historic Christian truth against the vicious attacks made by Darwinists and the destructive critics of the Biblical record. The particular doctrines that needed especial support were: 1) the inspiration and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, 2) the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, 3) the virgin birth of Christ (and thereby Christ not possessing a fallen Adamic nature), 4) the vicarious atonement of Christ for the sins of the entire world, 5) and the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ and of all those who put their faith in Him as their personal savior.
Since I hold these five aforementioned truths, then that certainly makes me a “Fundamentalist” and not a terrorist! So, give us a break!
Dr. Rich Klein
