Summary: Social or relational theology deals with the relationship between Christians, churches, organizations, movements, individuals, and organizations, and touches on the topics of Liberalism, Orthodoxy, Neo-Orthodoxy, Neo-evangelism, Ecumenicalism, Separation, and Fundamentalism, among other topics.

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David Cox - Overview to Social Theology, definitions of general groups and movements.
Quotes about separation and fundamentalism

61.00 General Works

Boice - Whatever Happened To God?
Finlayson - Modern Theology and the Christian Message
Machen - The Tolerance of Paul
Ryle - The Cross: A Call to the Fundamentals of Religion
SBC - The Abstract Of Principles
Zeller - Where are you Standing? Rationalism, Revivalism, Modernism, Liberalism, & Fundamentalism
 

61.01 Biblical bases

Jeffery Khoo - Biblical Separation (b) (124 pages)
Zeller - The Biblical Doctrine of Separation
Zeller - The Beauty of Separation: Blessings and benefits of being set apart unto Christ.

61.01.01 Holiness of God

Fred Moritz - Holiness - The Foundation of Separation
Fred Moritz - The Spirit of the Separatist
 

61.01.02 Separation (Holiness of God's People)

Khoo - Separation: Doctrine of Church Purification and Preservation 124 pgs

61.01.03 Lack of Holiness condemned.

61.01.04 The Biblical Unity of God's People

David Cox - The man of God is not to be contentious.
Zeller - Does Doctrinal Purity Hinder the Cause of Mission?
Zeller - Heart Disease in Christ's Body (Review of this book by Jack Van Impe).
Zeller - The Importance of Doctrine and True Biblical Concept of Love

Perhaps the greatest problem with the majority of Fundamentalists is that they have missed the enter point of separation. We are separate from sin, and those who refuse to fight against sin in order to maintain our particular purity and faithfulness to God. Without biblical unity, separation is being contentious and ornery. See my article on not being contentious.

61.01.05 Apostasy

An apostate is simply someone who has entered into Christianity in a meaningful way (as a Christian, and/or has achieved advancement to the point of being a teacher, preacher, pastor, or leader in Christianity, and then has fully renounced all forms of Christianity as being undesirable (to him), incorrect, and this person has fully rejected Christianity and Christ as his Savior. The essential elements for a person to be an apostate is that they must have first embraced Christianity after having supposedly understood it, and then to reject it totally. The idea of totally is perhaps too strong in some cases, because for example a protestant minister who rejects the protestant position and goes into Catholicism is also considered an apostate. The idea is to go over to the enemy.

61.02 History of movements

Overview: From biblical times God has wanted His people to be holy and separate from sin like He is. Satan has pushed God's people into unholy relationships that has greatly displeased God. This tension has never ceased, and continues in our day as it has in all of past history that we have to study.

See an explanation by David Cox of the positions and movements of Liberalism, Orthodoxy, Neo-Orthodoxy, Evangelicals, Neo-Evangelicals, Ecumenicalists, and Fundamentalists.

61.03 Orthodoxy

Bauer, Walter -  Orthodoxy and Heresy
Lloyd-Jones - Knowledge - False and True: A Warning Against Dead Orthodoxy

61.04 Neo-Orthodoxy

61.05 Liberalism

Machen, J Gresham - Christianity and Liberalism 314K (144 pgs) (b)
Machen, J Gresham - Christianity and Liberalism - Doctrine
Machen, J Gresham - Christianity and Liberalism - God and Man
Machen, J Gresham - Christianity and Liberalism - Salvation

Beale - Liberalism (Appendix 4 from book, SBC House on the Sand?)
Zeller - The Difference between Liberalism and True Christianity
Zeller - Bible Criticism (Destructive Criticism)

61.06 Evangelicalism

61.07 Ecumenicalism

Alan Morrison - The Hidden Agenda of the Ecumenical Movement
Zeller - Tragedy of Ecumenical Unfaithfulness
Zeller - Contemporary Evangelism in Light of God's Word
Zeller - Problems with Ecumenical Evangelism (Is Billy Graham right or wrong?)

61.08 New-Evangelicalism

David Beale - New Evangelicalism (Appendix 1 from book, SBC House on the Sand?)
David Cloud - New Evangelicalism: History, Characteristics, Fruits
David Cloud - Fundamentalism, Modernism, and New-Evangelicalism
Carlton Helgerson - The Challenge of a New Religion
McCune - Formation of the New Evangelicalism: Historical & Theological Antecedents (32 pgs)
McCune - Formation of New Evangelicalism: Historical Beginnings (42 pgs)
McCune - New Evangelicalism and Apologetics (41 pgs)
Mark Sidwell - New Evangelicalism (Chapter 9 from Dividing Line: Understanding and Applying Biblical Separation)
TA Ministries - Neo-Evangelical Movement
Wikipedia - Neo-Evangelicalism
Zeller - Understanding New (Neo) Evangelicalism

61.09 Fundamentalism

David Cox - Criteria for defining a fundamental
David Cox - What is a fundamentalist?
David Cox - What are the fundamentals?

Torrey, RA - Fundamentals v1 (b) 809K (306 pages).
Torrey, RA - Fundamentals v2 (b) 930K (319 pages).
Torrey, RA - Fundamentals v3 (b) 891K (312 pages).
Torrey, RA - Fundamentals v4 (b) 827K (303 pages).
Priest - A.C. Dixon, Chicago Liberals, and The Fundamentals (a) 22 pgs
Khoo - Fundamentals of the Christian Faith 144pgs
Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, R.C. Sproul (PDF Download)

Fundamentalism is not exactly the same as the other categories on this page, and it is perhaps out of place here. Fundamentalism is a dedication and devotion to the essentials of Christianity, and one of those essentials is separation from what is not faithful and true to Christianity. The rejection of these doctrines, practices, and the people who hold them and promote these unscriptural positions and doctrines is at the heart of being a fundamentalist.

61.10 Separation

Beale - The Rise and Fall of Harvard (University) (a) 13 pgs
Beale - What Fundamentalists mean by the term Separation or Holiness (Appendix 3 from book, SBC House on the Sand?)
BJU - Biblical Separation: (Tract) Introduction 1.) Separation from the World, 2. Separation from False Teachers, 3. Separation from Disobedient Brethren, Conclusion
Brown - Separation: The Call to Purity
Cole - Separation versus Cooperation (a) 3 pgs
David Cloud - Bible Separation
David Cloud - Is love contrary to judging?
Dan S - In Unconditional Love Really Biblical?
Doran - Are you seeking the Favor of Men or of God? (a) 2 pgs
McCabe - The Old Testament Foundation for Separation  (a) 20 pgs
McCune - Inside Look at Ecclesiastical Separation (a) 8 pgs.
Robert Morey - The Cost of Discernment
T.T. Shields - A Defense of the Gospel in Spurgeon's Day and Now
Sidwell - A Call to Separation and Unity: D. Martyn Lloyd Jones and Evangelical Unity 28 pgs
Stanford - The True vs False Teacher
Stephens - Creeping Kudzu of Compromise
Zeller - Divisions in the Church
Zeller - A Clarifying Statement on Modern Trends and Positions
Zeller - Warnings for the Heart (10 sets of Devotionals for Bible students)

Separation comes from the Bible's teaching on the Holiness of God. God is holy, therefore He is separate from sin. But God also has a great distaste for those who would pretend to be servants of God, and worse leaders in Christianity that simply are not saved, and seek to pervert and contaminate Christians with elements of sin, and fellowship with those living in open sin, refusing to submit to God's will.

See also 61.01.05 Apostasy.

61.11 Studies on individual Groups and Movements

Note that these notes are cross linked in other areas of the library.

Please note that our general studies on movements and Groups in Christianity is found in 78 Movements and Groups. That section is basically from a historical viewpoint, without necessarily entering into their separation position, although some doctrinal positions and practices are dealt with. The people mentioned on this page will link to the same files as in 78 Movements and Groups, but those mentioned here are specially treated in regard to the Separation issue.

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61.12 Studies on individual People

Please note that our general studies on people in Christianity is found in 90 Modern Persons in Christianity. That section is basically from a historical viewpoint, without necessarily entering into their separation position, although some doctrinal positions are dealt with. The people mentioned on this page will link to the same files as in 90 Modern Persons, but these are people that are important in the Separation issue.

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