Comments on: a conversation on fundamentalism, Presbyterians, and other stuff https://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/ fundamentalism by blunt instrument Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kent Brandenburg https://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-603 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:51:34 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/#comment-603 Feudalistic control is easy to understand IMO. They, as Phil Johnson has described, don’t give due process. It is like an old boys club. Of course, this is interpreted as bitterness, which does more to illustrate the truth. I’ve never been happier outside of the influence of the feudalistic control. What I’ve heard it called through the years is “bowing to Greenville.” You could replace “Greenville” with Watertown or Detroit.

It’s possible that things have changed, because I’m not in the loop any longer, but it is what I witnessed when I was in it.

]]> By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-601 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:39:37 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/#comment-601 Well, I agree, it is unclear. I think he is talking about the leadership role educational institutions seem to play, as opposed to primarily leadership of pastors/churches, but perhaps that is simply my reading into his comment.

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: Andy Efting https://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-600 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:13:03 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2008/02/19/a-conversation-on-fundamentalism-presbyterians-and-other-stuff/#comment-600 Don, I”m not sure what Rick means by “feudalistic ecclesiology of institutional control.”

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