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The Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy

The Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy. Dr. Glenn Jonas Campbell University. Introduction. Middle of the 19 th Century Major Changes in America Immigration Industrialization Urbanization . Intellectual Revolution Freud Marx Darwin. Controversy Associated With Change Divisions

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The Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy

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  1. The Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy Dr. Glenn Jonas Campbell University

  2. Introduction • Middle of the 19th Century Major Changes in America • Immigration • Industrialization • Urbanization

  3. Intellectual Revolution • Freud • Marx • Darwin

  4. Controversy Associated With Change • Divisions • Modernists • Denied Biblical Literalism • Denied Biblical Inerrancy • Denied Biblical Infallibility • Accepted Evolution • Attempted to Accommodate Theology to Modern Culture

  5. Conservatives • Not necessarily unfriendly to change but tended to be much less open than Modernists • Fundamentalists • The Fundamentals • inspired and inerrant scriptures • Deity of Christ and virgin birth • Substitutionary atonement • Christ’s bodily resurrection • Christ’s personal, premillennial and imminent second coming • World’s Christian Fundamentals Association • Scopes “Monkey” Trial

  6. Baptists and the Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy • Numerous Baptist Groups Involved • The 2 Common Issues • Evolution • Biblical Interpretation

  7. English Baptists • Downgrade Controversy • Charles H. Spurgeon vs. John Clifford

  8. Northern Baptists • William Bell Riley vs. Harry Emerson Fosdick • Fundamentalist Efforts Among Northern Baptists • Investigation of colleges and seminaries (1921) • Attempts to adopt a creed (1922) • Failure and Fundamentalist withdrawal

  9. Canadian Baptists • T. T. Shields (Toronto) • McMaster University • 1927 Shields and his church expelled from the Ontario-Quebec Baptist Convention.

  10. Southern Baptists • Very few “Modernists” in South • Conservatives vs. Fundamentalists • J. Frank Norris • Along with T. T. Shields and William Bell Riley, Norris formed the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association giving birth to a Pan-American Fundamentalist Organization.

  11. Evolution in the SBC • 1925 Baptist Faith and Message statement

  12. Source • Walter B. Shurden, “The What Must Baptists Believe Controversy,” in Not a Silent People: Controversies that Have Shaped Southern Baptists, Macon: Smyth and Helwys, 1995.

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