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INTRODUCTION

The controversy between the Fundamentalists and the

Modernists in the Protestant churches presents certain

difficulties for the expounder, mainly because the two

parties to the debate are not clearly defined. Not all theo-

logical conservatism can properly be called fundamen-

talism. There are those who for themselves hold all the

old doctrines, but who do not have the belligerent attitude

toward other opinions which marks the group who call

themselves Fundamentalists. There is also a large class

of Christian leaders who go a little way with the Modern-

ists on questions like the nature and proper use of the Bi-

ble, who feel unable to take beliefs like the second coming

of Christ with quite the old literalness, who might even

admit a measure of errancy in the Bible in unimportant

matters, but who stand firm on the old doctrines of the

person and work of Christ. It is doubtful whether these

can properly be called Modernists. The same men, for

instance, may be found on the modernist side when it

comes to belief in evolution, but on the conservative side

when the question is the virgin birth or the bodily resur-

rection of Christ. The question is also complicated by

the fact that many of the Fundamentalists do not repre-

sent the whole group of conservatives in that they are

premillennarians (or premillennialists) . This is a formid-

able word, but its meaning can be quite easily made

clear. There is much mention in the New Testament of

a second coming of Christ to this world, with manifes-

tations of glory in contrast to the lowliness of his first

appearance, In the last book of the New Testament, the

Apocalypse or Revelation of St. John, there is also refer-

ence to a future period of a thousand years when Christ

shall reign on this earth and the powers of evil shall be...

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