History of Fundamentalism

DBTS: Fundamentalism May Feel Safe, Because It Is

9Marks: Fundamentalism May Feel Safe, But It’s Shortsighted

The Theologically Driven podcast marked its 100th episode this week by posting its collected series on fundamentalism.

“I say Temple was ‘historic’ because its founding went back to 1892 and it was led for several years by a well-known but notorious pastor, J. Frank Norris… ‘The combined membership of the two churches was roughly 25,000’” - Ken Brown

“What does the university say today? That’s an essential question when covering this story. There have been quite a few changes at BJU, which may be what this power struggle is all about.” - GetReligion

“At that time, between approximately 1930 and 1957, the terms ‘evangelical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ were virtually synonymous, descriptors of conservative Christians.” - Patheos

“When I asked my fundamentalist teachers and mentors how to reconcile portions of the Bible with each other I was harshly put down as trying to use reason on what is essentially beyond reason.” - Roger Olson

“In the Northern Baptist Convention, battlelines were drawn and fought over three issues: the spread of higher criticism in seminaries, the growing hierarchy and bureaucracy of the Convention, and the relaxing of Baptist polity—particularly through the growing practice of ‘open membership.’” - 9 Marks

“A problem was that these 1920s through 1950s American fundamentalists could not get together under one umbrella. And they became increasingly narrow, dogmatic, anti-intellectual, separatistic and suspicious even of each other—as to degrees of influence by liberal thought.” - Roger Olson