Examples of neo-evangelicalism would be Ockenga, Billy Graham, and Christianity Today. Wheaton College is a big center of it today, and most parachurch ministries are neo-evangelical too (e.g. Campus Crusade).
"Examples of neo-evangelicalism would be Ockenga, Billy Graham, and Christianity Today. Wheaton College is a big center of it today, and most parachurch ministries are neo-evangelical too (e.g. Campus Crusade)."
Wait a minute, those are "Evangelicals". They coined the term back in the '40s and 50's. Just ask any GRPL.
"The Yearbook's statistics show membership declines over the past decade for several major denominations, including the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, all of which are often categorized as moderate or liberal. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which is more frequently labeled conservative, also saw a small decline.
But the country's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, which has received considerable attention for its positions that wives should submit to the leadership of their husbands, and on the inerrancy of Scripture, showed a 7 percent increase between 1994 and 2005, to 16,439,000 members."
This from an article posted yesterday. Carter is the poster boy for defeatism. He has never met a success he could not turn around.
Both of you are right.
Originally, fundamentalism stood for certain historic biblical Christian principles that I support.
The word has since floated and is really no longer associated with those principles and is more associated with an unforgiving intolerance toward others of a different faith than oneself.
In the original sense I adhere to those biblical fundamentals. In the more modern use of the word (even if it is a use created by opponents), I am not supportive of unforgiving intolerence.