Dan Greenfield

Category: Fundamentalism

  • Fight the Good Fight

  • Conservative Evangelicalism

    Roger Olson (an Arminian Pietist who classifies himself as a “postconservative evangelical”) has two interesting articles on the recent phenomena known as “conservative evangelicalism”– The New Fundamentalism Division in the evangelical house (HT to Michael Riley for pointing me to Olson’s blog.) In the first article, after listing four aspects…

  • Movements

    During the last year or so there has been a concerted effort by several men advocating the premise that while there are fundamentalists there is no longer a movement of fundamentalism. One of the reasons put forward in support of this premise is the “fractured state” of said fundamentalism. We…

  • "Word of the Day"

    I subscribe to Daily Writing Tips’ “Word of the Day.” Today’s post was “fundamentalism.” I naturally read it, and it was pretty good: Fundamentalism (fŭn’də-mĕn’tl-ĭz’əm) in a religious sense is an effort to return to “fundamentals,” or founding principles. It was first applied in the early 20th century to an…

  • McClain and New Evangelicalism

    Previously, I wondered what response McClain had toward new evangelicalism during its rise in the 1940s and 1950s. Recently, while filing a pile of papers, I came across some notes from a chapel at DBTS by Dr. McCune. He and Dr. Priest were doing a series on “Fundamentalist Personalities,” and…

  • Israel, the Church, and Separation

    Does the Lord’s patience with apostate Israel, Babylon, Nineveh, etc., give evidence that faithful believers should stay in “troubled”  denominations? Many professing believers point out that Jesus still frequented the temple despite its being controlled by those who eventually killed him. In other words, shouldn’t someone stay in a bad…