The Conflict Of Fundamentalism And Modernism by Leander Keyser - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry – "Faithful to the Reformation":
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"What’s happening in 21st Century “Evangelical Christianity” echoes a battle that took place 100 years ago. The terms then were “modernist” and “fundamentalist”. Today the “modernists” go by many names. What were the “fundamentalists” are now those who hold with sincerity and understanding those orthodox Confessions of the Reformation.
According to Dr. Keyser, modernists can be identified by these tendencies:
They place high importance on “being strictly up-to-date”.
They boast of “scholarship” above faithfulness to the Scriptures.
They take a rationalistic approach to the Word.
They believe in evolution.
They tend to reject the supernatural events in the Bible such as the flood.
They reject some or all of these specific doctrines of historic Christianity:
The plenary inspiration of the Bible
The Virgin Birth of our Lord
The real Godhood of our Lord
The vicarious or substitutionary atonement wrought by our Lord through His sufferings and death
The bodily resurrection of Christ
The apocalyptic or visible second coming of Christ to raise the dead and judge the world.
They show respect for “ethnic religions”."
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About the Author – Leander S. Keyser
Leander S. Keyser was born March 13, 1856 in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He was educated at Wittenberg College Seminary, Springfield, Ohio, and served pastorates at La Grange, Indiana (1879-1881), Elkhart, Indiana (1883-1889), Springfield, Ohio (1889-1895), Atchison, Kansas (1897-1903), and Dover, Ohio (1903-1911). He was appointed professor of Systematic Theology at Hamma Divinity School in 1911, and was considered one of the leading theologians of the General Synod.
Dr. Keyser’s works include The Conflict Between Fundamentalism and Modernism, The Rational Test, A System of Christian Evidence (Apologetics), A System of General Ethics, A System of Natural Theism, and In The Redeemer’s Footsteps.
Professor Keyser went to be with his Lord on October 18, 1937
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