Is Cultural Fundamentalism a New Form of Fundamentalism?
I have no idea if this thread will last since it seems Sharper Iron is becoming the “let’s not talk about fundamentalism” fundamentalist blog. Anyway, recent threads and events have caused me to wonder, is so called Cultural Fundamentalism a new trend, or is it the old form keeping on while the new breed deviates from the established norm? Let me start be saying that I do not pretend to be an expert in Fundamentalist history. I have read the basic books (Pickering, Moritz, McLachlan) but I am not a vaunted graduate from a fundamentalist Bible college or seminary.
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Secondary Separation: Should Christian Brethren Ever Separate? (Part 2)
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Is there such thing as “secondary separation?”
There is a remarkable consensus that the phrase “secondary separation” is unbiblical. Moritz maintains the grounds of any separation are principles based upon the holiness of God (72). McCune likewise repudiates the concept of “degrees” of separation (147). Charles Woodbridge was particularly offended by the term; he called any distinction of degrees of separation a “deadly menace.” To him, separation extended to any relationship in which disobedience to God is involved (10).
The Bible knows nothing whatever about “degrees” of separation from evil! The Christian is to remove himself as far as it is humanly possible from all forms of evil, whether they be peripheral, pivotal or relatively ancillary. To hate evil means to hate it in all its forms—its ancestry, its immediate presence and its progeny! (11)
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