afishamongmany
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Ah the elasticity of language and the wonder of wikipedia.
The present day use (misuse?) of 'fundamentalist' coupled with Christian or Christianity is a prime example of the blurring and smearing of original meaning.
I'm happy to to accept the label 'fundamentalist' as per the original unmorphed meaning. But of course we live in a wonderland world where labels mean what ever you want them to mean.
Over the years the main denomination I've been involved with has been the Baptists but have had time with Anglican, Methodist and AIC Kenya. These days of course denominational labels are no longer any sort of reliable guide to finding a fundamentalist (as per the original meaning) church.
The underlining in the following extracts is mine.
Go well, go wisely
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The Fundamentals - Wikipedia
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of 90 essays published from 1910 to 1915
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The 90 essays were written by 64 different authors, representing most of the major Protestant Christian denominations.
The essays were written to affirm conservative Protestant beliefs, especially those of the Reformed tradition, and defend against ideas deemed inimical to them. They are widely considered to be the foundation of modern Christian fundamentalism.
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The volumes defended orthodox Protestant beliefs and attacked higher criticism, liberal theology, Roman Catholicism (also called Romanism by them), socialism, Modernism, atheism, Christian Science, Mormonism, Millennial Dawn, Spiritualism, and evolutionism.
Christian fundamentalism - Wikipedia
Christian fundamentalism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants[1][2] as a reaction to theological liberalism and cultural modernism. Fundamentalists argued that 19th-century modernist theologians had misinterpreted or rejected certain doctrines, especially biblical inerrancy, that they viewed as the fundamentals of the Christian faith.[3] …...
fundamentalists usually believe in a core of Christian beliefs that include the historical accuracy of the Bible and all its events as well as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[6]
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Interpretations of Christian fundamentalism have changed over time.[7] Fundamentalism is a movement manifested in various denominations such as Pentecostalism or Roman Catholicism with various theologies, rather than a single denomination or systematic theology. It became active in the 1910s after the release of The Fundamentals, a twelve-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy. The movement became more organized in the 1920s within U.S. Protestant churches, especially Baptist and Presbyterian.
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Since 1930, many fundamentalist churches have been represented by the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (renamed IFCA International in 1996), which holds to biblical inerrancy, the virgin birth of Jesus, substitutionary atonement, the literal resurrection of Christ, and the Second Coming of Christ, among other doctrines.
The present day use (misuse?) of 'fundamentalist' coupled with Christian or Christianity is a prime example of the blurring and smearing of original meaning.
I'm happy to to accept the label 'fundamentalist' as per the original unmorphed meaning. But of course we live in a wonderland world where labels mean what ever you want them to mean.
Over the years the main denomination I've been involved with has been the Baptists but have had time with Anglican, Methodist and AIC Kenya. These days of course denominational labels are no longer any sort of reliable guide to finding a fundamentalist (as per the original meaning) church.
The underlining in the following extracts is mine.
Go well, go wisely
><>
The Fundamentals - Wikipedia
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of 90 essays published from 1910 to 1915
….....
The 90 essays were written by 64 different authors, representing most of the major Protestant Christian denominations.
The essays were written to affirm conservative Protestant beliefs, especially those of the Reformed tradition, and defend against ideas deemed inimical to them. They are widely considered to be the foundation of modern Christian fundamentalism.
….....
The volumes defended orthodox Protestant beliefs and attacked higher criticism, liberal theology, Roman Catholicism (also called Romanism by them), socialism, Modernism, atheism, Christian Science, Mormonism, Millennial Dawn, Spiritualism, and evolutionism.
Christian fundamentalism - Wikipedia
Christian fundamentalism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants[1][2] as a reaction to theological liberalism and cultural modernism. Fundamentalists argued that 19th-century modernist theologians had misinterpreted or rejected certain doctrines, especially biblical inerrancy, that they viewed as the fundamentals of the Christian faith.[3] …...
fundamentalists usually believe in a core of Christian beliefs that include the historical accuracy of the Bible and all its events as well as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[6]
......
Interpretations of Christian fundamentalism have changed over time.[7] Fundamentalism is a movement manifested in various denominations such as Pentecostalism or Roman Catholicism with various theologies, rather than a single denomination or systematic theology. It became active in the 1910s after the release of The Fundamentals, a twelve-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy. The movement became more organized in the 1920s within U.S. Protestant churches, especially Baptist and Presbyterian.
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Since 1930, many fundamentalist churches have been represented by the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (renamed IFCA International in 1996), which holds to biblical inerrancy, the virgin birth of Jesus, substitutionary atonement, the literal resurrection of Christ, and the Second Coming of Christ, among other doctrines.
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