Insights from Reforming Fundamentalism: 11-12

[continued from this post] 11) reformation and fragmentation Reforming Fundamentalism helped me understand the tendency that renewal or reform movements have toward fragmentation and internal conflict.  Its much easier to unite in opposition to the...

C.S. Lewis on Gender

In C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra, toward the end of the book, the main character Ransom sees the two Oyarsa (angels) of Mars and Venus, and notices that one is masculine and one is feminine. Lewis then...

Insights from Reforming Fundamentalism: 8-10

8) premillennialism and identity It was interesting to see how premillennialism as well as inerrancy was an identity issue in the early fundamentalist-evangelical movement.  Early FTS, for example, was thoroughly pre-millennial: it was in their...

Insights from Reforming Fundamentalism: 7

[continued from this post] 7) Still battling modernism From its inception, evangelicalism has been trying to figure out how to shed the bad of fundamentalism without losing the good.  How to lose the chaff without...

Out of the Silent Planet

I’ve been listening to Out of the Silent Planet this week.  Its not quite as good as the other two books in the space trilogy, I don’t think – but nevertheless its a lot of...

The Lewis-Anscombe Debate

Some C.S. Lewis scholars have popularized the idea that Lewis had a serious crisis of faith after a debate with Elizabeth Anscombe, a Roman Catholic philosopher, at the Oxford Socratic Club on February 2, 1948. ...

Healthy Individualism

Insights on Reforming Fundamentalism: 6

[continued from this post] 6) Defining Evangelicalism: Open or Closed? Another issue the book raised in my thinking relates to evangelical identity.  Should we define evangelicalism by what it is for or what it is...

Who is the “annointed one” of Habakkuk 3:13?