{"id":1779,"date":"2009-11-17T00:50:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2009-11-17T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T07:09:52","slug":"evangelicals-and-fundamentalists-stott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/11\/17\/evangelicals-and-fundamentalists-stott\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals and Fundamentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Difference between Evangelicals and Fundamentalists<\/a>\u00a0sets out John Stott’s thinking and is by Roger Steer. It comes as a David Virtue\u00a0VOL Exclusive www.virtueonline.org<\/a> of November 13, 2009.\u00a0 To whet your appetite:<\/p>\n

Over a period of a few months during 1998, John [Stott] wrote his Evangelical Truth: a personal plea for unity. ‘As I approach the end of my life on earth,’ he wrote, ‘and as this year I complete sixty years of privileged Christian discipleship, I would like to leave behind me, as a kind of spiritual legacy, this little statement of evangelical faith, this personal appeal to the rising generation.’<\/p>\n

Twenty years on from answering the questions ‘What is an evangelical?’ at Nottingham in 1977, he chose a Trinitarian approach to evangelical truth. But first, he set out ten respects in which the authentic evangelical differed from the fundamentalist. In doing so he tried to be as fair as he could to fundamentalists trying desperately to avoid caricature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A very stimulating and much needed article, The Difference between Evangelicals and Fundamentalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As ever, I gained from John Stott’s erudition and clarity.\u00a0I am sure\u00a0Joe Hockey would likewise gain: see, Joe Hockey on\u00a0faith and society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Difference between Evangelicals and Fundamentalists\u00a0sets out John Stott’s thinking and is by Roger Steer. It comes as a David Virtue\u00a0VOL Exclusive www.virtueonline.org of November 13, 2009.\u00a0 To whet your appetite: Over a period of a few months during 1998, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}