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Mid-April 1933 :n 11 ~ co <t ~ V) 1..l vi rc -' CHRISTIA1a!Y TODAY '"Ll n - .xn > .>-0'\ >­ Q-Np: ~ CL 1.1)>-0"" <t :;, A PRESBYTERIAN JOURNAL DEVOTED TO STATING, DEFENDING III \""2:~O o III AND FURTHERING THE GOSPEL IN THE MODERN WORLD SAMUEL G. CRAIG, Editor H. McALLISTER GRIFFITHS, Managing Editor Published monthly by THE PRESBYTERIAN AND MID-APRIL, 1933 $1.00 A YEAR EVERYWHERE REFORMED PUBLISHING CO., Entered a. second-cl ... matter May 1,1,1931, .t Vol. 3 No.12 Ihe Posl Office at Phil.delphia, Po., under th. 501 Witherspoon Bldg., Phila., Pa. Act of March 3,1879. "A CONSERVATIVE BUT NOT A FUNDAMENTALIST" Editorial Notes and Comments ECENTLY the Christian Century referred to a well­ known individual as "a conservative but not a funda­ "GERMAN CHRISTIANS" mentalist" and commented as follows: "There is a radical difference between the two. A fundamental­ ROM Germany comes the ominous news of a move- ist is a conservative become militant. The funda· ment within the Protestant churches having as its mentalist is militant, not becaus~ he holds con­ ' objective a reorganization of the churches along servative views himself, but because he holds that Nazi lines in a manner that would make the Church the truth of Christianity cannot be expressed in an adjunct of the State. According to these reports any other form of speech save those which belong not only is the government of the churches or rather to the orthodox system." According to this repre­ of the unified church to be placed in the hand of sentation the distinguishing mark of a fundamentalist is state officials but the creed of the church is to be militancy in behalf of "a special form of words or a particular f rewritten in a manner that will bring it into system of concepts." Small wonder that the Christian Centu'ry harmony with the ideals and aspirations of an holds the fundamentalist in slight esteem! "awakened Germany" as understood by those in sympathy with HITLER and his supporters. We are told that the Old Testament There is truth, of course, in the representation that the words, is to be banned from the churches because its heroes and prophets "conservative" and "fundamentalist," as currently used, do not were Jews and the sagas and mythical figures from Valhalla­ always connote exactly the same conception. While they are Thor and Wotan and such like-together with stories of World often used as synonyms yet to call a man conservative is not War heroes and leading personalities of German life substituted necessarily the same as to call him a fundamentalist. Fre­ therefor. We are told also that in the new church the swastika quently the word "fundamentalist" has a narrower connotation is to have a place beside the Christian cross and that out of this than the word "conservative." For instance the word "funda­ new alignment there is to arise a new theology in harmony with mentalist" is still frequently used to deSignate a pre-millennial the new order of things that is being established in Germany. conservative. More frequently, however, it is used to designate The "German Christians" are said to be out-and-out in their the evangelicals as over against Roman Catholics on the one nationalism, rejecting all idea of an international Christianity hand and Modernists on the other. Roman Catholics may rightly and holding that if CHRIST were to return'to earth He would align be spoken of as conservatives but it is not usual to call them Himself with HITLER as a leader against Marxism and inter­ fundamentalists. Most frequently, therefore, the word "funda­ nationalism. mentalist" is used to deSignate evangelical Protestants as over It remains to be seen how much of truth these reports con­ against those non-evangelical Protestants known as Modernists. tain. It is to be hoped that they contain even less truth than From this point of view, there is not a great deal of difference have many other reports that have emanated from that distracted between calling a man a conservative and calling him a funda­ country. They are not altogether incredible in view of the mentalist. Personally we prefer the word evangelical as inclu­ liberalism of the German churches and of the fact that 750/0 of sive of both conservatives and fundamentalists. We mayor may German Protestantism is said to be sympathetic to Hitlerism. not like the word "fundamentalist." Be that as it may, the Certainly these reports, if true, are 'fraught with tremendous distinction which the Christian Century makes between the con­ significance inasmuch as a reorganization of the churches along servative and the fundamentalist has no basis in fact. these lines would mean the end of the historic churches of Ger­ In representing the fundamentalist as a conservative become many. What is more, Church members who submit to such a re­ militant it seems to us that the Christian Century has compli­ organization of the Church would cease to be Christians in any mented the fundamentalist. In our estimate at least a pacifist adequate sense of the word. If these reports are even measure­ conservative is not a very commendable figure. What is more ably true, the age-long problem of the proper relation between it seems rather anomalous for the Ohristian Oentury to condemn Church and State is about to take on an awakened interest. the fundamentalists for their militancy. Apparently, in its Basically there are but three possible solutions-that of the judgment, militancy in behalf of modernism is commendable subordination of the State to the Church, that of the subordina­ but not militancy in behalf of New Testament Christianity. tion of the Church to the State, and that of the equality and When, however, it pictures the fundamentalist as militant independence of State and Church as co-ordinate powers each merely in behalf of a special form of speech it seems to us that supreme in its own sphere. It is to be feared that the second the Christian Oentury, wittingly or unwittingly, is guilty of sheer of these theories is to be adopted by the Nazi government in a misrepresentation. The fundamentalist's primary interest is not form more extreme than has hitherto been known in the history in a form of words but in the great facts and truths that these of Christianity. words have been used to express. He could view the passing of (A Table Of Contents will be found on Page 24) 2 CHRISTIANITY TODAY April,1933 the words with equanimity if it were evident that the realities the Great Commission of our LORD as authoritatively laid down for which they had stood were still preserved. The sad thing for us in the New Testament. in his judgment is not the dying of words but the dying out of "Middle-of-the-road people will try to make it a semi-good the hearts of men of the things for which the words stand. What or semi-bad Report. But is this a time to walk in the middle the evangelical objects to in connection with so-called modern of the road? Sincere respect may be accorded to humanist expressions of Christianity is not their modern terminology, but who declares his stand by the Report. It is his idea and rather the fact that they are expression not of Christianity but ideal. But as true evangelicals we should absolutely decline of a somewhat that lacks every distinctive mark of real Chris­ to accept the findings of the Report and repudiate its humanism tianity. "Christians of today," so militant a conservative as the as inadequate for the relief of mankind, definitely declaring late Dr. WARFIELD once wrote, "must state their Christian belief for the distinctiveness of that Gospel which alone has brought in terms of modern thought. Every age has a language of its Goo's redemption to uncountable multitudes in every genera­ own and can speak no other. Mischief comes only when, instead tion and in all lands, by affirming that 'there is none other of stating Christian belief in terms of modern thought, an effort name given among men whereby we must be saved' than is made, rather, to state modern thought in terms of Christian through the atoning sacrifice of JESUS CHRIST and the reo belief." If we .mistake not, it is the latter of these two thing~ generating office of the Holy Spirit. that the Christian Century is busily engaged in doing. It makes "If the Appraisal Report is right, the Bible is wrong. If large use of Christian terms but the thing it commends is some­ that Report is true then the Church has no distinctive Gospel thing other than Christianity. for this age. This Appraisal Report has raised the issue as to whether or not the Church has a Gospel. The answer is ready. Millions of redeemed sinners are ready to declare with PAUL: THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE RE·EMPHASIS OF NEW 'I am not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST for it is the power TESTAMENT MISSIONS of GOD unto salvation.' That is our answer. As between these two such utter and irreconcilable antipodes, evangelicals take .-----,N our last issue we reported the formation of the their stand on the Word of GOD and dedicate their humble organization named above and offered certain pre· lives and means to obedience to its revelations and directions." liminary comments. We gave expression to our sense of satisfaction at its formation but at the The "Declaration" of the Association (defined as "a voluntary same time stated that we were considerably dis­ fellowship consisting of those who accept the Great Commission turbed over the fact that its chairman, Dr.
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