THINKING:
NEED FOR; FUNDAMENTALISM

The church today is anguishing fr men who can bring to the problems of religion reverent, courageous minds intent upon a solution.

Unfortunately Fundamentalism has never produced a great thinker.…

Let it be understood by everyone that I am now and have always been an evangelical.… Yet it is my painful duty to record not only that I have not been challenged by the intellectual output of the evangelicals of this generation, but that I have found evidence of genuine religious thinking almost exclusively on the side of those who for one or another reason are in revolt against Fundamentalism. We of the gospel churches have sat quietly by and allowed those on the other side to do all the thinking. We have been content to echo the words of other men and to repeat religious cliches ad nauseam.…

Modern gospel Christians are parrots, not eagles, and rather than sail out and up to explore the illimitable ranges of the kingdom of God they are content to sit safe on their familiar perches and repeat in a bright falsetto religious words and phrases the meaning of which they scarcely understand at all.

The Set of the Sail, 61, 62, 63.