{"id":734,"date":"2025-11-01T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/?p=734"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:37:54","slug":"the-churchs-not-so-new-fundamentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"The Church\u2019s [Not So] New Fundamentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The links below relate to an in-house discussion within my denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), though the issues affect other fellowships as well. <em>Ordained Servant<\/em> is a publication aimed at officers in the OPC, her deacons, ruling elders, and ministers. <a href=\"https:\/\/opc.org\/os.html?article_id=1191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Church\u2019s [Not So] New Fundamentalism <\/a>appeared in the June\/July 2025 online issue. The November 2025 issue carries a response by the Rev. Peter C. Van Doodewaard, an OPC, pastor, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/opc.org\/os.html?article_id=1213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">About Machen and New Fundamentalism<\/a>. It also includes as part of the Servant Exchange my response to my brother&#8217;s article, <a href=\"https:\/\/opc.org\/os.html?article_id=1214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Do We Have a Problem? Patriarchal Fundamentalism and Abuse<\/a>. The issues are important enough, I believe, to warrant continued reflection and study of the Word of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The links below relate to an in-house discussion within my denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), though the issues affect other fellowships as well. Ordained Servant is a publication aimed at officers in the OPC, her deacons, ruling elders, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/?p=734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,71,28],"tags":[19,72,33,36],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","category-fundamentalism","category-orthodox-presbyterian-church","tag-abuse","tag-fundamentalism","tag-orthodox-presbyterian-church","tag-patriarchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}