Fundemental Christianity

    A definition

    (put together by alphabyte, a previous Channel Manager of #Christian, and reproduced here with his permission)

    The Watchman Expositor, defines Fundamental Christianity in the following manner:

    Fundamental Christianity: Generally a reference to conservative Christians who believe five "fundamentals" of the faith:

          the inerrancy of Scripture,

          the virgin birth of Christ,

          the substitutionary atonement of Christ,

          the bodily resurrection of Christ, and

          the historicity of biblical miracles.

    More specifically the term is identified with the conservative reaction to liberal Christianity in the early 20th century. Core beliefs of the movement are virtually identical with evangelical Christianity.

    Some fundamentalists, however, later distinguished themselves from evangelicals (or neo-evangelicals) whom they saw as too compromising and ecumenical.

    More recently some have given a new, negative meaning to the term "fundamentalist" using it as a synonym for narrow-minded, bigoted, anti-intellectual or divisive Christians.

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