WI: no Fundimentalism in the USA

Simple, don't allow the rise of Modernism. Allow the denoms to muddle along in their historic tracks. Fundamentalism arose as an answer to Modernism. Please see "In Pursuit of Purity" by Beale for a quick view.
 
It defined it self in opposition to Modernism, but it was always there.
I repsectfully disagree. But this is not the forum to fully air my disagreement, except to note:

G. Gresham Machen rejected the label though he otherwise qualified for it. Machen based his decision on the premise that he was only being an orthodox Presbyterian. Though I don't mind the label, my theological positions are those of Historic Northern Baptist. I.e., we were Fundamentalists before Fundamentalism was fun.

Please read. Francis Wayland's Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches and Edward Thurston Hiscox's New Directory for Baptist Churches. NP&P was complied in 1856 and Hiscox's New Directory was published in 1894. Both are authoritative and were written before the Modernist controversy took off.

Both are available in digital format through Google Books.
 

Jasen777

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Yes but not politically motivated, or at least not nearly as much.

I assumed that was your point.

Fundamentalists were traditionally not very active in politics. It wasn't until the '70s and Roe v. Wade and the Equal Rights Amendment need this change.


I repsectfully disagree. But this is not the forum to fully air my disagreement, except to note:

I think I'm just using the term more broadly than you.
 
Keith Robertsson said:
Simple, don't allow the rise of Modernism....
yes... simple isn it
Well, the animous developed because the Modernists took over the Historic denominational structures (colleges, seminaries, ect.). If they had built and developed their own, then a lot of the bitterness would've been removed from the situation.
 
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