After WW I in the USA, many conservative Christians sought to reaffirm orthodox Protestant Christianity to oppose the challenge of liberalism....
The movement took its name in the 1920s from The Fundamentals, a 12-volume work by many writers of various denominations in North America and the UK. The work defended the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, Christ's substitutionary atonement, His bodily resurrection and the historical character of miracles. By the 1930s, fundamentalists broke away from the large denominations, which either held to liberal theology or Karl Barth's neo-orthodoxy from Germany. They began independent churches, seminaries, missionary agencies, publishing houses, etc. As the term was used in the 1950s, fundamentalism more strongly opposed apostasy in Christendom, especially in the World Council of Churches, and was not willing to cater to intellectual respectability. During the 1970s and 1980s, fundamentalism in the USA became perceived as a politically active religious movement opposing secular humanism. In the 1990s the media associated fundamentalism with right-wing political extremism, violence and anti-intellectualism. At the beginning of the new millennium fundamentalism has become a derogatory word for all religions that insist on a single truth, and which supposedly threaten western multiculturalism and fashionable radical pluralism.
CCC stands for the fundamentals of the Christian faith and the absolute authority of the Bible. We do not seek to be intellectually respectable in the eyes of academia, but do pursue intellectual integrity and responsibility. We do not seek to be politically active as a church body. We reject violence. We believe the Bible teaches the need for ecclesiastical separation as a means of preserving truth from error and communicating truth to the next generation.
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