Here is your opportunity to help me out.
I am obviously missing something. Could someone please tell me who Phil Johnson is and why I should listen to him talk about anything, particularly fundamentalism? I am not a big John MacArthur follower or anything like that. Perhaps this is my problem?
posted by Ryan Martin at 3/02/2006 10:41:00 PM
I am a post-graduate student at a fundamentalist Baptist seminary.
3/02/2006 11:09:00 PM
Ryan Martin 3/03/2006 04:26:00 PM 3/03/2006 08:09:00 PM 3/04/2006 01:26:00 AM 3/06/2006 08:09:00 AM Ryan Martin 3/06/2006 08:58:00 AM Bob M 3/06/2006 10:35:00 PM
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Doesn't he coach the Lakers?
Assuming that's a genuine question: he's the director of Pastor MacArthur's Grace to You and I thought the first part of this that defines fundamentalism, evangelicalism and neo-evangelicalism was insightful. Proud to call myself an evangelical these days.
very funny, filosofo.
I simply got amusement out of the "uproar" over this thing. I, being essentially unfamiliar with Johnson (other than glancing at the pictures at his blog every once in a while), was not sure where all this "hoopla" was coming from, with the BIG graphic on the Orange River and even paleo and everyone "a-buzz" and such. Perhaps I'll read what he has to say. He is certainly not discounted by my not knowing him, at which part of this was poking fun.
I am so out of it. That's the point. Everyone is abuzz about Phil Johnson, and I am not sure why.
Good question and there is no reason to listen to Phil johnson. If you compare his part 1 from last year with part2 this year, you realize he has learned a little about fundamentalism in a year but still needs some guidance in a good course on the history of fundamentalism. Last year he was a fundamentalist. This year he might be implying he does not think he is. Actually, the typical student at Central, DBTS or CBTS knows more about the subject.
Ryan,
Phil probably didn't say anything you haven't already thought, so don't spend too many sleepless nights over your inexcusably pathetically uninformed state. The sport is in watching folks scurry to discredit him. It sort of reminds me of the strategy used by the political machinery of a recent presidential administration to cover for his dalliances.
Bob's missing the point. The problem is that what he believes seminary students have heard is different from the propaganda that has been disseminated to pastors for decades.
bob it's amazing how wrong you are! What is amusing is your boldness and audacity. That's just the kind of fundamentalist attitude and jargon that causes the next generation of fundamentalists to recoil from being associated with your brand of fundamentalism. I don't believe Phil was implying what you are obviously and errantly inferring from his statements. Lastly, from ryan's own admission, a typical student at Central, DBTS or CBTS does not know more about the subject because last year when Phil did the presentation everyone who was anyone in fundamentalism was in on the discussion. Not that being a part of the discussion makes anyone better than another, but maybe just less "inexcusably and pathetically uninformed." Oh, and because Drs. Doran and Bauder were so heavily involved maybe you shouldn't lump everyone together.
Okay, I am getting a little sick and tired of all the defamation going on around here . . .
Just because I'm not in the mainstream on this Phil Johnson fellow does not necessarily make me "inexcusably and pathetically uninformed." I am sure there are other factors that make that true.
Self-deprecation is so unbecoming of you, Ryan. Now, me on the the other hand, it fits quite nice. I am totally uninformed.
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