Alan Dale Gross
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Perhaps you're interested in the 'Fundamentalists' and their reactions to various forces leading to the initiation of a specific Historical 'movement', only, as thought about by these men;
"Stewart Cole and Norman Furniss explored the origins of Fundamentalism in terms of a reaction to modernity. Ernest Sandeen explored a more theological basis for understanding Fundamentalism. For Sandeen, millennialism and Princeton Theology were the catalysts of Fundamentalism. Under individuals such as J. Nelson Darby and events like the Niagara Bible Conferences (most notably the 1878 Conference), dispensational, pre-tribulation, pre-millennial theology was spread. Throughout the second half of the 19th century there was a plethora of prophetic conferences that spread millennialist ideas.
"Sandeen’s second catalyst, Princeton Theology, was born in Princeton Theological Seminary under Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge and their students Archibald Alexander Hodge, B.B. Warfield and J. Gresham Machen. Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism continues to serve as its best introduction. Together they argued for the infallibility of Scripture and a rationalistic system of thought, largely based on Thomas Reid and the philosophical school of Scottish Common Sense Realism.
"C. Allyn Russell explored a different thesis, arguing that the energy behind Fundamentalism was Protestant Liberalism. Russell’s work is helpful in regard to exemplifying the theological differences between the leaders of Fundamentalism, thus tempering Sandeen’s contention that there was a theological unanimity which undergirded and energized the entire movement.
"But George Marsden, author of the definitive work on American Fundamentalism, is the scholar of choice for most on the matter.
"Marsden argues for four main streams that fed into Fundamentalism:
1) the revivalist empire of D.L. Moody (and revivalism in general);
2) the onslaught of modernity, breeding an ambivalence toward culture;
3) the holiness movements (especially the British-born Keswick movement); and
4) with Sandeen, pre-tribulational, pre-millennial, dispensationalist theology,
although Marsden doubts that “pre-millennialism was really the organizing principle.”
Understanding “Evangelical” Part Two: Fundamentalism | Church & Culture
*Editor’s Note : This is the second of a five-part series. Be sure to read the first installment he re . The term “Fundamentalist” or “Fundamentalism” was probably first coined by Curtis Lee Laws in the Baptist paper The Watchman Examiner in 1920. According to Laws, Fundamentalists were
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