Lesson 12

Question 1

What was the outcome of the Modernist/Fundamentalist controversy?

Answer 1

• Split of Baptists and Presbyterian churches
• Founding of seminaries to counter the teaching of liberal theology.
• The outcome of the Scopes Monkey Trial resulted in fundamentalism being ridiculed

Question 2

How has Neo-Orthodoxy shaped mainline Protestantism?

Answer 2

• Attempt to move away from old libral theology
• Focused on God’s transcendence over emenance
• Existentialism
• Shifted away from liberalism but a form of “new modernism” and/or “new liberalism”
• “Bible becomes the Word of God when God speaks to you through it”
• Preaching is also God’s Word so far as it reveals Jesus Christ.
• God speaks truth to individuals in divine encounter

Question 3

Why is Billy Graham important for 20th C. evangelicalism?

Answer 3

• Commitment to preach the Scriptures
• Revival Meetings
• Founding Christianity Today
• Global Ministry
  - Berlin Olympic Stadium (1954) – 100,000
  - Australia, New Zealand (1959)
  - South Korea (1973) – 3 million at main crusade
• Crossed denominational lines
• Crossed conservative/liberal lines
• Lausanne Movement (1974)
  - International Congress on World Evangelization – Lausanne Covenant

Question 4

Describe how Pentecostalism is significant for understanding Global Christianity.

Answer 4

• Multi-ethnic impact
• Emphasized second work of Spirit (and Spirit in general)
• Gift of tongues
• Boldy shared their faith which contributed to rapid spreading globally
• 3rd world Christianity (shift from predominately white)
• South America and Africa