{"id":668,"date":"2008-03-26T23:43:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/26\/two-random-quotes-from-ch-class\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T07:48:45","slug":"two-random-quotes-from-ch-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/26\/two-random-quotes-from-ch-class\/","title":{"rendered":"two random quotes from CH class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two quotes from my 1980 Church History class. The section I am dealing with in recent posts are basically preliminary to a discussion of new evangelicalism vs. fundamentalism. Here are the quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A schismatic spirit is one that insists upon total agreement on non-essentials as well as on the essentials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fundamentalist creeds do not include denominational distinctives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there any correlation between these two ideas?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obviously within denominational efforts, denominational distinctives will be proclaimed. Some will not cooperate outside such distinctives. Would that be schismatic? I don&#8217;t think so, as I would find only very limited opportunity for cooperative effort beyond the scope of Baptist distinctives. [Not that my practice is the standard!]<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I recognize that there are faithful fundamentalist brethren who do not hold to Baptist distinctives. My distinctives don&#8217;t limit my fellowship as much as they do my cooperative energy. I&#8217;m not going to be funding Presbyterian missions as a Baptist, although I may rejoice to hear of souls saved through the ministry of my Presbyterian friends (and family members!).<\/p>\n<p>With that example, I don&#8217;t think a refusal of cooperation is schism in every case. There is a difference between cooperation and fellowship. Schism is a refusal of even fellowship over non-essential doctrines &#8212; a refusal to bid a brother &#8216;Godspeed&#8217; because he doesn&#8217;t hold to exactly the same standards in the same way I do, for example. It is almost a denial of standing as a Christian: &#8216;you&#8217;re not a Christian because you use a different version than me.&#8217; On the other hand, I might not cooperate with another Christian because of the version(s) he uses, but that is not the same as schism &#8211; we can still have some fellowship because we are both Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Am I making any sense, or am I up too late?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/don-sig19.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two quotes from my 1980 Church History class. The section I am dealing with in recent posts are basically preliminary to a discussion of new evangelicalism vs. fundamentalism. Here are the quotes: A schismatic spirit is one that insists upon total agreement on non-essentials as well as on the essentials. and Fundamentalist creeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[78,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-aM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}