The Problems with and without Fundamentalism

Rick Phillips, who was not raised fundamentalist, explains why he is now choosing to send his children to a fundamentalist school. Among other reasons, "They get the Christian antithesis, that light has shined in the darkness and that we are to walk in the light and shine the light into the darkness."

In a response, Carl Trueman warns that Fundamentalism can create "a situation where others are only ever critiqued, not learned from, while we remain blissfully above correction."

The perspectives of these two men are helpful, and well worth reading. There is the tendency for those of us who are moving from Christian legalism to miss the important point that prevents us from finding good balance in Christian hedonism; namely, "that light has shined in the darkness and that we are to walk in the light and shine the light into the darkness." On the other hand, there is the temptation for fundamentalists, because of their sincere faith to fall into "a cultic mentality," as Trueman states.

HT: Between Two Worlds and Sean Michael Lucas