I came across a review of the Mosaic (The Video Magazine of the ELCA) program titled "Understanding Fundamentalism" that made me want to watch it. Happily, it is available for streaming on the web.
http://archive.elca.org/mosaic/Fundamentalism/index.html
The program is 1/2 hour long, and, understandably, pretty basic. Though it was interesting, it didn't contain much new information for me. It talks about the Modernist/Fundamentalist controversies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses in part on the way this played out among Presbyterians.
But...the video asserts that Modernism did not have the same impact on Lutheranism as other segments of Christianity.
Historically that may be true. At the turn of the 20th century, Lutheranism took little notice of the Fundamentalist/Modernist debate. The various factions of Lutheranism that existed at that time tended to be divided by issues of national origin, pietism and the like.
The predecessor bodies of the ELCA were largely modernist in their worldview. But the conversations that take place in the main TC-L forum lead me to think that current divisions within North American Lutheranism as a whole center very much around Modernism and the reactions against it. Maybe the Modernist controversies just affected Lutherans later than the rest of North American Christianity?
http://archive.elca.org/mosaic/Fundamentalism/index.html
The program is 1/2 hour long, and, understandably, pretty basic. Though it was interesting, it didn't contain much new information for me. It talks about the Modernist/Fundamentalist controversies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses in part on the way this played out among Presbyterians.
But...the video asserts that Modernism did not have the same impact on Lutheranism as other segments of Christianity.
Historically that may be true. At the turn of the 20th century, Lutheranism took little notice of the Fundamentalist/Modernist debate. The various factions of Lutheranism that existed at that time tended to be divided by issues of national origin, pietism and the like.
The predecessor bodies of the ELCA were largely modernist in their worldview. But the conversations that take place in the main TC-L forum lead me to think that current divisions within North American Lutheranism as a whole center very much around Modernism and the reactions against it. Maybe the Modernist controversies just affected Lutherans later than the rest of North American Christianity?
