{"id":679,"date":"2008-04-02T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/04\/02\/abpnews-takes-a-turn-at-defining-fundamentalism\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T23:01:00","slug":"abpnews-takes-a-turn-at-defining-fundamentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/04\/02\/abpnews-takes-a-turn-at-defining-fundamentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"abpnews takes a turn at defining fundamentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Baptist Press attempts to define the allegedly undefinable! Read all about it in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/3104.article\" target=\"_blank\">Fundamentalism &amp; militancy: Defining \u2018fundamentalism\u2019<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey were trying to find the boundaries of authentic Christianity,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>says one commentator.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A quote near the end that gets the original history succinctly and fairly accurately:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the beginning &#8212; around the turn of the 20th century &#8212; fundamentalism originated among militant-but-nonviolent conservative American Protestants. They were primarily Presbyterians and Baptists in the North who resisted modernism, Olson said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they did was network with each other to oppose the rise of liberal theology in mainline Protestant seminaries,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey were afraid of a lack of doctrinal concern among liberals. They believed it was important to regain the seminaries or separate from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/don-sig.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Baptist Press attempts to define the allegedly undefinable! Read all about it in &#8220;Fundamentalism &amp; militancy: Defining \u2018fundamentalism\u2019&#8220; \u201cThey were trying to find the boundaries of authentic Christianity,\u201d says one commentator.<\/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":[78,37,43],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-aX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}