Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FUNDAMENTALIST 1. The Bible is the Word of God. 2. Jesus Christ is THE Son of God in a sense in which NO other is. 3. The birth of Jesus was SUPERNATURAL. 4. The death of Jesus was EXPIATORY. 5. Man is the product of SPECIAL CREATION. 6. Man is a SINNER, fallen from original righteousness, and apart from God's redeeming grace, hopelessly lost. 7. Man is justified by FAITH in the atoning blood of Christ. Result, supernatural regeneration from ABOVE...
Perhaps it is impossible for a Fundamentalist to state fairly the Liberal position. Probably, if he could state it, he would not so militantly oppose it. In stating the Modernist position above, the Fundamentalists completely ignore the main point in all the Modernist attitude. For example, the Modernist does not say that the birth of Jesus was NATURAL.* He says he does not know that it was supernatural. "But," says he, "whether Jesus was or was not the natural son of Joseph, matters less than that Jesus' followers should seek and do the will of God as Jesus...
Heresy Hunters, Dr. John Roach Straton and 30 other members of the Fundamentalist League of New York and vicinity descended upon the Baptist headquarters at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, marched to the room of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, demanded to see the files of that office. The Board of Managers of the Mission Society (liberal to the core) held a stormy four-hour session with their Fundamentalist brethren (conservatives absolutely), and finally refused to open their files. The Board of Managers found that there were no specific, written charges against Baptist missionaries in the foreign...
...same time a Baptist clergyman was complaining to a fundamentalist conference of that Church that the German religious philosophy " which led to the world war" was being taught in many American schools and colleges. His intention was, of course, to oppose, so far as he might, the teaching of such doctrine...
...Baptist Church, representing 7,000,000 members, has the congregational system of government, with each church a law unto itself. Last year, at Indianapolis, the Fundamentalists barely missed controlling the Northern Baptist Convention. This year the convention is being held in Atlantic City (May 23-29). The Fundamentalists held a meeting there on May 22. They may try to stampede the convention into an antievolution statement, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting last week in Kansas City, has made. They may also seek by ballot to control the appointment of the Foreign Missions and the Home Missions committees, both...