[Vision2020] Fundamentalists vs. Evangelicals

[Donovan Arnold]

Nick,

I don't think, despite how good it may be, you can expect all people to read 
your book and use your definition of Fundamentalists and Evangelicals. I 
don't think that is reasonable or feasible. When you write on V2020, people 
are going to use the Webster definition of words and terms.

Good Day,

Donovan J Arnold


>From: Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Fundamentalists vs. Evangelicals
>Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:28:26 -0800
>
>Greetings:
>
>In response to Dave Budge's call for caution, I just want to say that I'm 
>using my terms very carefully.  For my own detailed analysis of the terms 
>"evangelical" and "fundamentalist" you should read the first chapter of my 
>book God, Reason, and the Evangelicals, in which I use the term 
>"evangelical" to refer to millions of American Christian and do not use the 
>term "fundamentalist" at all.  (See www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/gre.htm.) I 
>believe that only a small portion of these Christians would affirm the 
>positions that I mention in my essay: (1) An arrogant proclamation of those 
>who are saved and those who damned; (2) a gleeful wish for the destruction 
>of infidels on either side; (3) an ethnic chauvinism of the type we see in 
>the League of the South; and (4) a serious affirmation that the laws of God 
>should be the laws of the land.
>
>Yes, "fundamentalism" is a tricky word, but the other reason I chose to use 
>it here is that these positions fit so nicely with what we know of Muslim 
>fundamentalism.
>
>Nick Gier
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