Modernist theology and why you should care, part two

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This is a placeholder for part two. Part one and the opening notes are here.

Worth repeating: the actual paper is for email subscribers only. Plus a million dollars. Maybe.


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Sources and resources:

Even though the paper’s content is not posted here, I want to give credit where credit’s due. Here are the footnotes.

[1] R. K. Harrison, Jeremiah and Lamentations: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 21, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973), 109.

[2] Mark A. Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, Third Edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), 250, Kindle.

[3] Nathan P. Feldmeth, Pocket Dictionary of Church History: Over 300 Terms Clearly and Concisely Defined, The IVP Pocket Reference Series (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008), 90.

[4] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[5] R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World (Wheaton: Crossway, 2000), 117.

[6] Norman L. Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume One: Introduction, Bible (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2002), 321.

[7] James K. Dew Jr. and Paul M. Gould, Philosophy: A Christian introduction (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2019), 63, Kindle.

[8] Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, Updated Fourth Edition (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013), 424, Kindle.

[9] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2618.

[10] Shelley, Church History, 424, Kindle.

[11] Shelley, Church History, 445, Kindle.

[12] Garth M. Rosell, "Fundamentalism and Modernism in Transition & Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversies" lecture transcript 21a from Survey of Church History, (PDF and MP3, Christian University GlobalNet Institute and RBC Ministries, 2015), 1.

[13] Garth M. Rosell, "Fundamentalism and Modernism,” 2.

[14] Shelley, Church History,420, Kindle.

[15] Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith, Pocket Dictionary of Ethics, The IVP Pocket Reference Series (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003), 101.

[16] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[17] F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford;  New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1410.

[18] Cross and Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 1410.

[19] Shelley, Church History, 419, Kindle.

[20] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[21] R.C. Sproul, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Theological Liberalism.” Ligonier Ministries, December 11, 2018. video of lecture, retrieved November 29, 2019, https://www.youtube-.com/watch?v=7-utwkfgyyI.

[22] The ESV Study Bible, 2619.

[23] The ESV Study Bible, 2619.

[24] Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume One: Introduction, Bible, more not357–358.

[25] "History of the United States (1865-1918), Wikipedia, last modified November 12, 2019,, accessed December 14, 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1865–1918).

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[27] Shelley, Church History, 466, Kindle.

[28] Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018), 116, Kindle.

[29] Nathan P. Feldmeth, Pocket Dictionary of Church History: Over 300 Terms Clearly and Concisely Defined, The IVP Pocket Reference Series (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008), 62.

[30] Shelley, Church History,453

[31] Rosell, "Fundamentalism and Modernism,” transcript 21b, 11.

[32] Rosell, "Fundamentalism and Modernism,” transcript 21b, 11.

[33] Rosell, "Fundamentalism and Modernism,” transcript 21b, 2.

[34] Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume One: Introduction, Bible, 357–358.

[35] Rosell, "Fundamentalism and Modernism,” transcript 21b, 4.

[36] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[37] Adolf Von Harnack, What is Christianity (San Diego, CA: Book Tree, 2006), 145. Kindle.

[38] Shelley, Church History, 424, Kindle.

[39] Von Harnack, What is Christianity, 145. Kindle.

[40] Von Harnack, What is Christianity, 185. Kindle.

[41] Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume One, 559.

[42] Von Harnack, What is Christianity, 40-41. Kindle.

[43] Von Harnack, What is Christianity, 42. Kindle.

[44] Von Harnack, What is Christianity, 173. Kindle.

[45] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[46] Von Harnack, What is Christianity, 205. Kindle.

[47] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[48] The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 2619.

[49] D.A. Carson, “But That’s Your Interpretation,” Themelios, vol.44, is. 3, retrieved December 16, 2019, https://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/article/but-thats-just-your-interpretation.

[50] Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed, 117, Kindle.

[51] Sproul, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Theological Liberalism.”