What in the World is Fundamentalism? — Ask Anabaptist Perspectives Anything Episode 36

Fundamentalism is a hermeneutic, a way of looking at the scriptures, a preoccupation with getting it right and checking all the right boxes.

This is foreign to our basic Anabaptist hermeneutic.

Reagan presses Chester Weaver to respond to a listener who says “I still don’t understand what fundamentalism is.” So this talk takes another pass at this large subject.

Chester points to Harold Bender as a leader who managed to reject both liberalism and fundamentalism through attention to the Anabaptist story.

The Dortrecht Confession always begins with God. The Christian Fundamentals begin with the “Word of God.” This reflects a shift from a lived faith to doctrinal orthodoxy.

Read the Dordrecht Confession of faith online: Dordrecht Confession of Faith (Mennonite, 1632) – GAMEO

Read the Christian Fundamentals online: Dordrecht Confession of Faith (Mennonite, 1632) – GAMEO

https://anabaptistperspectives.org/fundamentalism

https://anabaptistperspectives.org/fundamentalism-and-its-aftermath

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