fundamentalism

Lesson 1: What is a Creed?

Lesson 1: What is a Creed?

Before we examine the Apostles’ Creed, we had better remember the roles creeds play in the Church. Obviously, the first is to state what an individual believes. “Credo” is “I believe.” That is not to claim the creed summarizes a person’s faith. It addresses items that have been controversial. Many essential items, such as Jesus’ […]

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Lesson 6: Nature as Creation

Lesson 6: Nature as Creation

Let’s look further at what the Bible says about nature, beginning with the creation stories. Most people have been so confused by the absurd Fundamentalist controversies that they are not even aware there are more than one. The longer and most complete ones are Genesis 1:1-2:4a, Genesis 2:4b-3:24 , Psalm 104, and Job 38-41, but […]

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Lesson 11: Creed

Lesson 11: Creed

We often forget creeds are ways to read the Bible. When the early Church disagreed on which parts were important and how to handle contradictions, one thing they did was to develop creeds. We sometimes see creeds as dividing people by laying rigid lines between who belongs and who doesn’t. Surely, they were used that […]

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Lesson 11: The Battle for God

Lesson 11: The Battle for God

I immediately found myself in the middle of conflict as I began writing about the third practical reason people go to Church, the search for a healthy lifestyle. Traditionalists hammer this new spirituality with its wellness theme as promoting “what I want rather than what God wills.” They advocate returning to supposedly eternal laws that […]

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Lesson 35: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Creed

Lesson 35: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Creed

With all the focus on the Bible (canon) we often pass over how the creeds go even further in determining what is and what is not the Word of God. In some ways the canon is like the Constitution and the creeds like the Bill of Rights. The early Church kept adding phrases to the […]

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Lesson 8: Fundamentalism

Lesson 8: Fundamentalism

It is well worth reading John and Bob’s online comments as well as Campbell and Putnam’s research.   My son and I came up with the same expectations several years ago when researching how Fundamentalism is a natural danger in a technological society. Too many people in our time think Fundamentalism is about reading the […]

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