Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mitel!shawm.misemi!morrow@uunet.uu.net ( config) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Will the Real Fundamentalists Please Stand Up? Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 08:12:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 37 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article cms@dragon.uucp writes: > >> >1. Catholic beliefs and practices represent true Fundamental Christianity. > >2. Mainstream Protestant beliefs and practices represent true Fundamental > Christianity. > >3. "Fundamentalist" (so-called) beliefs and practices represent true > Fundamental Christianity. > > This isn't a survey, per se, I'm just curious if you too are fed up with the >term "fundamentalist." With the way it's used in application to Christians, >God only knows what the media means by "Islamic Fundamentalists." As OFM >notes, however, media attitude is often negative. > Today's society seems to be "hooked" on titles and names. In some ways, the term "Fundamentalist" is to generic to be applicable when one is considering the many different sects and denominations which are prevalent today (especially in North America). I always considered "Pentacostals" and "Fundamentalist" to be one and the same. Imagine my confusion when "Evangelical Pentacostals" and "Fundamentalist Pentacostals" started sniping at one another. "Catholic" means "conservative". By this definition, I would include "mainline" churches such as Presbyterian. Methodist and Baptist. If you will notice, I've used alot of quotation marks in just over nine lines. Titles and names. Whether or not a particular denomination fo the Christian Church represents true "Fundamentalism" is, IMHO, impossible to debate as each group, by vitue of their existence, must believe that they are "fundamentally" "catholic" in their theology and liturgy. It all depends on the teachings of the churches. BOB