What exactly does "Fundamentalism" mean?

Question

What differentiates Christians who consider themselves to be Fundamentalists from those that don't?

Answer 1

faith before reason

Answer 2

Usuallly "Fundamentalism" means a negative and few people would accept the title.

Some Christian feel that there are fundamental (basic) doctrines which must be believed if one is to be saved. However, they differ from group to group.

I too believe that to be a Christian a person has to have Jesus Christ as their savior and lord. But on other things like 6 day creation (I DO believe in that) are not beliefs neccesary to recieving God's blessings.

Answer 3

Fundamental Christians go with the Fundamentals found in the Bible

Answer 4

A fundamentalist believes that everything in the Bible is without error, and is meant to live by. Not taking individual verses as their code, but the entire word of God as their code.

Answer 5

Fundies are those that think the Bible is 100% correct. Everything. Completely everything. Even the part where Pi is equal to exactly 3. See link below for quote if you don't believe me. 1 Kings 7:23

Answer 6

A fundamentalist(or fundie) is a person who takes their holy books seriously and literally. Example: Fred Phelps is a fundie Christian and Osama bin Laden is a fundie Muslim. They both take their holy books for their word instead of using secular ethics to decide what to pick and choose from them.

Answer 7

It is a 20th century movement within Protestantism that EMPHASIZES the STRICT and LITERAL TRANSLATION of the Bible as being FUNDAMENTAL in their version of what Christian life and teaching ought to be.

The word "fundamentalism" can be applied to other sets of BASIC PRINCIPLES, such as 'Islam fundamentalism' or 'political fundamentalism', etc.

Peace be with you.

Answer 8

It means to hold to the fundamentals of the faith. Christians who are fundamentalists hold to the inerrancy of Scripture, the trinity, the Deity of Christ, salvation by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone, etc..

Answer 9

fun·da·men·tal·ism
–noun 1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.
2. the beliefs held by those in this movement.

Answer 10

IMO a fundamentalist is someone that believes that only their point of view is correct and that their views should be imposed on other people

Answer 11

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