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Verbal Inerrancy, Word for Word, or, How Conservative is Fundamentalism, Really?

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“[The] antidote to modernism is not Fundamentalism, but Calvinism.” (R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession, p. 47) Fundamentalism has its roots in dispensational premillennialism of the late 19th century. It’s labeled as a “conservative” movement, but in a sense it isn’t. Not really. I say this because the term conservatism usually indicates a desire […]

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Calvary Chapel and Fundamentalism

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The word Fundamentalism was once a proper noun referring to the conservative religious movement that pushed back against old-school Protestant liberalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The label has come to be applied much more broadly, even in use now to describe ultra-conservative factions in various religions, not just Christian. Recently someone

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I have become a theistic evolutionist

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A few years ago, while evaluating what position I was going to take during a congregational vote regarding the adoption of a certain confession, I started researching various theological interpretations of Genesis 1-3. I came across the framework theory, best formulated by Lee Irons and Meredith Kline. The framework view presents Genesis 1 in two

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Two Kingdoms: Natural Law, Common Grace and the Spiritual Nature of the Church

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He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 (NIV) In my previous post, I discussed how social justice has played a factor in the development of my worldview. I’ve sought

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