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Defining Biblical Separatism Defining Biblical Separatism
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Ecclesiastical Separation Ecclesiastical Separation
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Seeking Unity Seeking Unity
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‘True Ecumenism’ ‘True Ecumenism’
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Separatism Globalized Separatism Globalized
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17 Ecumenism and Separatism
Get accessMarkku Ruotsila is Adjunct Professor (Docent) in US church history at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in United States and British history at the University of Tampere, Finland, as well as Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at LCC International University in Lithuania. He is the author of The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism: Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations (2008) and Fighting Fundamentalist: Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism (2015).
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Published:20 November 2023
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Abstract
Among the chief characteristics of Christian fundamentalism has been a separationist impulse, rooted in an urge to avoid all forms of worldliness and theological error. The biblical charge ‘be ye separate’ has been taken very seriously in terms of believers’ personal lives and in ecclesiastical affairs. This has resulted in the creation of fundamentalist denominations and parachurch agencies, and in refusals to cooperate with Christians who do not share the fundamentalist interpretation of the faith. Applications have evolved over time in shifting historical and cultural contexts, as well as by confessional tradition and eschatological interpretation. To reconcile the separation impulse with interdenominational cooperation in the global context of ecumenism has been challenging, yet there has emerged a distinct corpus of a fundamentalist theology of ecumenism, always in some tension with separatism. Several attempts have been launched since the 1940s to develop broadly acceptable alternative fundamentalist ecumenical practices.
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