A very interesting discussion on names and terminology in the 17th century is going on here. Would the first Baptists have embraced the term ‘anabaptist’? Apparently not.
Apparently labels matter (or mattered) to some.
Entries Tagged 'Church History' ↓
are we anabaptists?
January 31st, 2010 — Church History, Scholarship
a little eclectica
August 11th, 2008 — Church History, Issues, Separation, Space, Worldliness
I am in the midst of rebuilding my lawn after having a new $eptic $y$tem installed, so I am too busy for blogging. But let me note a few things of interest to me lately…
Nasa is Taking Shots at the Moon
There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn’t shined for millions of years [sic]. Dark polar craters too deep for sunlight to penetrate are luna incognita, the realm of the unknown, and in their inky depths, researchers believe, may lie a treasure of great value.
NASA is about to light one up.
For Church History Buffs
- Christianity Today’s Liveblog provices a list of favorite Church history sites. Two I knew about, but three are new and look promising.
So, what do you think of Video Games?
- The Canadian Christianity site has an article that raises some concerns about the addiction of many to gaming. A real concern, I think, but a typically too weak response in our child-centered era. (I think every branch of conservative Christianity is too weak on this, including Fundamentalism.)
And last, for now…
What gives with this Muslim-Christian conference?
- And did the Christians involved give away too much in the process? And what should a prominent Minnesota Baptist pastor say to another prominent Minnesota Baptist pastor this time? [Probably he should say more than he will say, I reckon.]
characteristics of revival
May 13th, 2008 — Church History, Scholarship
A bit more from my Church History notes. We were nearing the end of the semester when we discussed revival and revivalists. The heading of this lecture is the subject line of this post, “Characteristics of Revival”. Here they are:
- Interdenominational (but not undistinguished cooperation between infidelity and fidelity)
- Prominence of prayer
a brief history of the wcc
April 26th, 2008 — Church History, Issues, Scholarship, Worldliness
In an earlier post, ‘stages in the history of visible church unity‘, I left off on the point noting the emergence of the World Council of Churches on the one hand and the International Council of Christian Churches on the other. What follows is a bit of an expansion on that, again from my 28 year old Church History class notes.
Edinburgh 1910 – World Missionary Conference
- Turning point towards WCC
- International Missionary Council
[From this also flowed two conferences...]
stages in the history of visible church unity
April 23rd, 2008 — Church History, Fundamentalism, Issues, New Evangelicalism, Scholarship
I’d like to resume my notes from Church History class. I am taking a break from my break from blogging – largely related to working out my taxes… I hate doing taxes. Reality is so depressing! Far better to live in the imprecise haze of not knowing exactly where one stands! In Canada, our tax day is Apr 30, so we have a bit longer to dither than our USA friends. (Of course, if you don’t have to pay, they are in no hurry for you to get your refund!)
So a little R & R… blogging!
The lecture I am entering today comes under a header entitled:
The Ecumenical Movement
Next comes a quote – may not be exact words, but something was said that struck me:
Be aware of the difference between my will, Satan’s wiles, and the Spirit’s wooing.
Now for the main lecture:
discerning and eschewing new evangelicalism
April 11th, 2008 — Church History, Fundamentalism, New Evangelicalism
In my Church History notes folder I have the reprint of an article written by Dr. Panosian in 1963 for the Nov/Dec issue of Voice of the Alumni, the news-magazine for BJU alumni. The article has a picture of a very young Dr. P. It was written a bare six or seven years from the Billy Graham 1957 New York crusade, the moment when lines were starkly drawn and personal decisions for or against the new evangelicalism had to be made.
Dr. P summarizes the definitions of other men for the (then) new movement. Among those cited are William E. Ashbrook, Harold J. Ockenga, Charles Woodbridge, Bob Jones, Jr., and Robert C. Brien. From these, Dr. P distills this definition:
So Neo-Evangelicalism is a movement, an approach, a group, a theological position, a practice, an attitude, a method and a mood. It prefers positivism without negativism, liberalism to fundamentalism, infiltration to separation, results to principles, scholarship to Revelation, ‘Preaching the Gospel’ without contending for the faith, ‘love’ to Truth, and ‘unity’ to loyalty to the Word of God. Ignoring the injunctions of the Epistles, concerning the believers’ reaction to error, infidelity, and apostasy — mark them, avoid them, rebuke them, have no fellowship with them, reprove, exhort, receive not, try them, from such turn away — the Neo-Evangelical has already been judged by God’s Word. He needs no other judgement.
A few thoughts flow from this…
new evangelicalism – course and consequences
April 10th, 2008 — Church History, Fundamentalism, New Evangelicalism, Separation
I’ve been blogging my old Church History class notes [minus the doodles] for a little while now. The next two sections concern new evangelicalism:
The Course of Neo-Evangelicalism
- Sellout of schools: Fuller Theological Seminary and Wheaton College [as examples]
- Emergence of honoured leaders:
Harold Ockenga
Carl Henry
Edward Carnell
Donald Ray Barnhouse
Vernon Grounds
Bernard Ramm
Alan Redpath - Emergence of Propaganda Vehicles
Christianity Today (an answer to the liberal Christian Century)
Christian Life
Eternity
As I think about this section, I must not have fully understood the lecture, or else ’sellout’ is my term. Fuller was created for the purpose of advancing the neo-evangelical cause. It has always been committed to a course of compromise, whereas Wheaton turned away from a more militant beginning to the position it holds today.
the rise of neo-evangelicalism
April 3rd, 2008 — Church History, New Evangelicalism
Continuing my church history notes from 28 years ago…
Two of the prominent men of the neo-evangelical movement were John Carnell and Carl Henry. My notes at this point say “both from fundamental background.”
Henry was the first editor of Christianity Today, and was
at the time trying to make conservative evangelical orthodox Christianity rationally acceptable.
AIn 1947, Henry articulated something I have headed in my notes as the “NEEDS OF CONTEMPORARY EVANGELICALISM”
abpnews takes a turn at defining fundamentalism
April 2nd, 2008 — Church History, Fundamentalism, Quotables
The Associated Baptist Press attempts to define the allegedly undefinable! Read all about it in “Fundamentalism & militancy: Defining ‘fundamentalism’“
“They were trying to find the boundaries of authentic Christianity,”
says one commentator.
an outline of classic liberalism
March 30th, 2008 — Church History, Worldliness
More from my 1980 Church History class notes:
The old modernist movement came to be known as ‘classic liberalism’ (as opposed to a lesser known ‘new liberalism’ that emerged after WWI). The following is a brief outline describing them.
1850-1914 Classic Liberalism
Result of:
- Darwinism
- Higher Criticism
- Immanental subjectivism of Schleiermacher, Hegel, & Kant
[The roots in Darwinism and Higher Criticism are, I think, fairly well known. The philosophical background in immanental subjectivism is probably less known and understood. To understand modernism, I think one would do well to grasp especially the influence of the three men mentioned here.]