ext_4493 ([identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] khaosworks 2005-12-21 03:54 pm (UTC)

"... non-fundamentalist -- or should I call you folks non-evangelical? "

Depends who you mean by "you folks". =:o}

I'm an evangelical, in that I take the Bible as the principle and overriding documentary authority on what God wants to tell the world. (Except that many evangelicals would say I'm not an evangelical, because I don't believe the same things about what the bible is saying and how to make sense of it as they do.)

I'm also a "fundamentalist" with a small "f", in that I believe that whenever there's some point of confusion or debate about theology or God's will, it's important to go back to (or keep contsnatly in mind) the fundamental truths of our faith. But I'm not a Fundamentalist (with a big "F"), because I fundamentally disgree with those guys about what the fundamentals of our faith actually are! Hence, I don't usually refer to myself as a fundamentalist these days, to avoid confusion, and am quite happy to use the term Fundamentalist to refer to the mind of warped thinking represented by rapture literature, the theo-political ID movement, etc.

By the common understanding of the terms, though, I'd say that [livejournal.com profile] khaosworks is, like me, a non-Fundamentalist evangelical, with certain views that are non-standard for evangelicals. (And we don't even agree with each other on those! =:o} )

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