Feisty Fundamentalism
Doing Theology in the Great Tradition
J. Daryl Charles
January 1, 1998
The essays collected in this provocative volume are six plenary addresses plus six responses that were presented during five days of ecumenical discussion and prayer in May 1995 at Rose Hill College in Aiken, South Carolina. Invited speakers and respondents convened along with nearly two hundred other Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox with a view to transcend, in the words of the editor, "merely political and planimetric [ecumenical] categories." Attempts at "ecumenical dialogue" in our day are all too often an excuse for dismantling the faith, but the purpose of this gathering—co-sponsored by Rose Hill and the Fellowship of St. James—was "to test whether ecumenical orthodoxy, solidly based on the classic Christian faith as expressed in the Scriptures and ecumenical councils, could become the foundation for a unified and transformative witness to the present age."
Bona fide ecumenical dialogue—that is, the kind that refuses to compromise the integrity of the "great tradition" or avoid "quarreling about the truth"—is well represented in this volume. Plenary speakers and respondents promote a "hard-nosed ecumenism" of the sort that neither ignores our fundamental differences nor loses sight of the ecumenical imperative established by our Lord: "that they all may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you … , in order that the world might believe that you have sent me" (John 17:21). The authentic ecumenical spirit simultaneously clings stubbornly to the "theological center" of the historic Christian tradition while it listens to the professions of those representing differing confessional streams. The Rose Hill gathering was intended to do justice to both poles of this continuum.
Among the "differing confessional" ...
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