More Fundamentalism
Q: Do you consider what this blog promotes as Fundamentalism?
Well as said in the previous post is a hard question to address. Lutherans tend to start from the salvation of Jesus Christ which leads to the authority of the Bible, where as groups often defined as Fundamentalist tend to start from the authority of scripture, which leads to Christ. As I said in the previous post, and on the post on the Authority of the Bible, these things should go hand and hand, so as I said their shouldn't be a great difference from this approach. This blog is not seperatistic in its theology in that it believes fellowship and recoginzes others as Christians who confess salvation in Jesus Christ as Lord. Lutherans don't align with most groups deemed fundamentalists by their sacramental theology. This blog doesn't line up with Millenalist theology, that the media often cites in labeling fundamentalism. Lutherans aren't Fundamentalists in the sense that they seek to seperate from the culture. Some groups that are labeled fundamentalists often tend to look to the Bible to solve every life problem (ex. Government taxes), where as I look to the Bible to solve issues of Faith and Doctrine. But if one is to go be the definitintion of those who find the Bible authoriative in these matters as labeled at Luther Seminary, then yes this blog would be considered such. If another definition would be the rejection of rationalistic views of the Christian faith than this blog would be considered fundamentalist. So with so many possible ways Fundamentalistism is defined, I would say this blog isn't a Fundamentalist blog, since it doesn't fit in with many of the possible descrpitions. I prefer the terms "Lutheran Confessional" or "Evangelical" for the definition of my theology.
Well as said in the previous post is a hard question to address. Lutherans tend to start from the salvation of Jesus Christ which leads to the authority of the Bible, where as groups often defined as Fundamentalist tend to start from the authority of scripture, which leads to Christ. As I said in the previous post, and on the post on the Authority of the Bible, these things should go hand and hand, so as I said their shouldn't be a great difference from this approach. This blog is not seperatistic in its theology in that it believes fellowship and recoginzes others as Christians who confess salvation in Jesus Christ as Lord. Lutherans don't align with most groups deemed fundamentalists by their sacramental theology. This blog doesn't line up with Millenalist theology, that the media often cites in labeling fundamentalism. Lutherans aren't Fundamentalists in the sense that they seek to seperate from the culture. Some groups that are labeled fundamentalists often tend to look to the Bible to solve every life problem (ex. Government taxes), where as I look to the Bible to solve issues of Faith and Doctrine. But if one is to go be the definitintion of those who find the Bible authoriative in these matters as labeled at Luther Seminary, then yes this blog would be considered such. If another definition would be the rejection of rationalistic views of the Christian faith than this blog would be considered fundamentalist. So with so many possible ways Fundamentalistism is defined, I would say this blog isn't a Fundamentalist blog, since it doesn't fit in with many of the possible descrpitions. I prefer the terms "Lutheran Confessional" or "Evangelical" for the definition of my theology.
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