Reformed vs. Fundamental Theology compared
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Fundamentalist vs. Reformed Theology
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In general, most modern fundamentalists take the Bible at face-value
within their own socio-political context, and they usually subscribe to
a form of premillennialism. However, since the term fundamentalist is
often a vilification when used by outsiders, some fundamentalists now
call themselves evangelicals.
Fundamentalists are often those who are reclusive and estranged from the
religious establishment, which they sometimes perceive as needing an
overhaul or even replacement. The first time that any group of
Christians proclaimed themselves to be fundamentalists was in a meeting
that took place in the early 1900s in the United States. At the time
there was not the clear association of fundamentalists with militant or
religious fanatics (an association people might often ascribe to them
today). The gathering was merely a response, in the Church, to the huge
infusion of modernism and the liberalizing trends of German biblical
criticism. This tendency of modernism and unbelief in the Church gave
rise to a group resistance, among religious conservatives of various
stripes, to the loss of influence traditional revivalism experienced in
America during the early years of the twentieth century. At this time,
the "Fundamentalists" were Calvinists united together with
Dispensationalists and other conservative Christians to do battle with
this dramatic theologically liberal turn from historic Christian
orthodoxy. They distributed a series of pamphlets, free of charge, among
pastors and seminarians (published between 1910 and 1915) entitled "The
Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth".
These were a set of basic truths to which all the conservatives were
united in agreement and still are to this day. The following is what
came out of the meeting and what Reformed Theology and Modern
Fundamentalism still hold in common:
Fundamentalism and its Similarities with Reformed Theology
1) The inspiration and verbal inerrancy of Scripture
2) The Deity of Christ and the virgin Birth
3) The substitutionary atonement
4) Justification by faith
5) The physical resurrection
6) The bodily return of Christ at the end of the age.
7) Christ performed miracles
But over time the original reasons for uniting began to fall apart and
the differences between the Reformed and other camps began to show. The
following are significant differences that we can see today between
modern Fundamentalists and those with a Reformed heritage:
Fundamentalism (and its Differences with Reformed Theology)
1) The absence of historical perspective;
2) Ignores the Scriptures highly diverse literary genres;
3) The lack of appreciation of scholarship; aversion toward any
secondary theological training; anti-intellectual;
4) The substitution of brief, skeletal, superficial creeds for the
historic confessions;
5) The lack of concern with precise formulation of Christian doctrine;
highly averse to theology;
6) Pietistic, perfectionist tendencies, often moralistic (i.e., major
upon "issues" such as protesting Harry Potter movies; separating with
Christians who are not KJV only);Guilt-Centered (Fundamentalism) Vs.
Gospel Centered (Reformed) Sanctification
7) One-sided other-worldliness - reclusive: church separate from the
culture - the holy huddle (i.e., a lack of effort to impact their
communities & transform culture);
8) A penchant for futuristic chiliasm (or: dispensational
pre-millennialism);
9) They embrace some form of Manicheanism (or Greek dualism);
10) Often demonize their opposition and are reactionary;
11) Envy modernist cultural/political hegemony and try to overturn the
powers that be through political brute force rather than persuasion;
Thus are often viewed by outsiders more like a political lobby than
representatives of Christ;
12) Arminian tendency in theology (synergistic)
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Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Phlogeus
John <johnw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.cerm.info/bible_studies/Theological/fund_ref.htm
>
> Fundamentalist vs. Reformed Theology
> Copied with Permission from
> http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/FundyReform.html
>
> In general, most modern fundamentalists take the Bible at face-value
> within their own socio-political context, and they usually subscribe to
> a form of premillennialism. However, since the term fundamentalist is
> often a vilification when used by outsiders, some fundamentalists now
> call themselves evangelicals.
fundamentalists are not vilified they are badly behaved
Strapping kids to bombs to blow up the innocent in one religion and
invovement in blowing up public buildings in another does not qualify as
"good behaviour"
Fundamentalism is regarded as filth because it is. Fundamentalism is
Fascism in a religious or ideological disguise
Phlogeus
> These were a set of basic truths to which all the conservatives were
> united in agreement and still are to this day.
Largely that those who own everything have a God Give right to do anything
in Heaven or Hell to keep it
The only spiritual gifts Fundamentalists truly believe in are the Holy
Spirit granted rights to extort, repress, enslave and possess,