Monday, January 23, 2006

 

How Fundamental Are You?

SmartChristian has written a great piece on the history of the movement of fundamentalism in the American church. This really struck me
Although the Fundamentalists portrayed a consistent resistance to both Communism and Catholicism, the central cultural issue that Fundamentalists took up in the battle for America was biological evolution. The fight against biological evolution was led by the dynamic speaker William Jennings Bryan during the famous Scopes Trial in 1925. Following the highly publicized Scopes Trial, the Fundamentalists? cultural impact began to diminish drastically.
I couldn't help but wonder about Evangelicals and I.D. There was another good quote
The original Fundamentalist coalition was in unity around their mutually aggressive protest against modernism. However, once their efforts to reclaim the denominations began to fail, they could not internally agree upon the specific constructive approach they should take in the reclaiming of America?s church and culture. As George Marsden writes, ?As with all revolutions, they agreed on what they were against, but the unresolved differences among the co-belligerents became apparent as soon as they attempted to define their own positive course?
Which begs a really serious question for me. What is it evangelicalism seeks to build?

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