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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (29886)	9/27/2001 1:23:42 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Uh oh. This is the territory I am trying hard to avoid. Think I'll put my hands over my ears and hum to myself through the next few posts. -g

To: Lane3 who wrote (29886)	9/27/2001 1:45:35 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

A Modernist Christian is someone who interprets the whole of Christian narratives, symbols, and rituals in terms of a modern viewpoint. It might range from Deism to virtual atheism, referring the God as an Idea in which we repose our highest ideals. It disallows the possibility of the miraculous, revelation, or providence. Rudolf Bultmann, the German theologian, is a good representative: he wanted to get rid of the "mythological" content of Scripture to find the ethical core. Liberal Christianity, as I am using it here, is "modernism light". It might range from Kant's idea of "Religion within the Bounds of Reason Alone", and entail a belief in God, Freedom, and Immortality, and a weak belief in providence, all the way to a mild supernaturalism, for example, a belief that "something (more than purely natural) happened" that the Apostles interpreted as the Resurrection, or a mild belief in the efficacy of prayer. A traditionalist believes, to a greater or lesser extent, in revelation and miracles, and, more specifically, that "God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son". At a minimum, he subscribes to the Apostle's Creed, and usually the Nicene Creed as well. Christianity is something historically given, through Scripture and the Church, and although he may have reservations on some doctrines, he generally agrees that Jesus was the Lamb of God, and the First Fruit which rose from the dead. A fundamentalist is a hardline traditionalist, mostly in a Protestant vein, although there is a corollary to fundamentalism among Catholics. He not only insists upon each and every doctrine, with no latitude, but the literal inerrancy of Scripture. (A traditionalist believes in the substantial truth of Scripture). A traditionalist might believe in Invincible Ignorance, and apply it liberally, to those never in a position to understand the Gospel properly, while a fundamentalist thinks that those who do not accept Christ expressly are doomed. A traditionalist might believe that evolution is the mechanism for the creation of the human body (thought not soul), but a fundamentalist believes in Creationism. I think that is enough for right now.......