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Bezig met laden... Shall the Fundamentalists Win?: Or The New Knowledge and the Christian Faithdoor Harry Emerson Fosdick
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This morning we are to think of the fundamentalist controversy which threatens to divide the American churches as though already they were not sufficiently split and riven. A scene, suggestive for our thought, is depicted in the fifth chapter of the Book of the Acts, where the Jewish leaders hale before them Peter and other of the apostles because they had been preaching Jesus as the Messiah. Moreover, the Jewish leaders propose to slay them, when in opposition Gamaliel speaks "Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown; but if it is of God ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God." . . . Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Fosdick speaks from a position of some prominence and power and imagines that people who believe as he does will maintain that kind of prestige. He has no love for fundamentalist positions, and the man is certainly a religious progressive of his day; but his main concern seems to be the posture of condemnation which comes from the fundamentalists regarding those who differ with them.
Whereas fundamentalists can and do condemn beyond what is appropriate or written, Fosdick and others did cross many lines outside the bounds of Christian orthodoxy into territory which would be universally deemed heretical. However, the irenic spirit would have been nice and might have been compelling.
But the irenic spirit was not found in fundamentalism, and the ground on which the Fosdicks of the world stood in the early twentieth century was continually eroded throughout that century and into our own. The fundamentalists in many real ways did, in fact, "win," for better and for worse. (