Roger Olson “What Is Fundamentalism?" - Kevin Bauder's response
Olson: What is Fundamentalism
the main difference between us and “them” (the fundamentalists) was something called “secondary separation.”
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Roger Olson on Fundamentalism: Part One
Olson’s main point, which is that secondary separation is what distinguishes fundamentalism from other species of evangelicalism. On this point, Olson and I agree. What we disagree about is how to understand secondary separation and whether we believe that it is biblically required. That is the direction I want to go in this conversation.
Well, I’ve always disagreed with Kevin on the family tree. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists come from the same source, but one is not a subset of the other. Evangelicals today are not the same as the evangelicals prior to the 40s and 50s. They changed and we changed with the ride of New Evangelicalism. It is not that the Evangelicals got over New Evangelicalism and just subsided into the “status quo ante”. That struggle changed things for Christians on both sides of the dispute
Maranatha!
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Jer 33.3
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