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Title: The Fundamentals: The Famous Sourcebook of Foundational Biblical Truths by R. A. Torrey, Charles L. Feinberg, Warren W. Wiersbe ISBN: 0-8254-2633-2 Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: December, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding! A Treasurehouse of TRUTH!
Comment: This is one of the best, if not THE best, works of Christian Apologetics to be found ANYWHERE! The essays run the gamut from a critique of so-called "higher criticism", to what constitutes the true church, with a number of other topics as well. Read and enjoy the work that launched the movement of Christian "fundamentalism"!

Rating: 4
Summary: Good apologetics, but not for modern Fundamentalists
Comment: The Fundamentals is a decent work of apologetics that not only defends Biblical truth, but was prescient in skewering the 20th century secular ideologies that ultimately created totalitarianism, fascism, and the sort of odd totalitarianism-via-guilt-complex that now governs major universities under the names "tolerance" and "diversity." But these works are of no interest to modern Fundamentalists, who bear little resemblence to the authors of these "Fundamentals." The authors of this volume intended to create an ecumenical Christianity that united orthodox Christian believers from a variety of Protestant traditions around the central truths of Christianity. They openly acknowledged that the Bible uses various literary forms - many of which are hardly "literal" - and that the modern Bible versions (the RV at the time) were more accurate than the King James Bible. The movement they aimed to create is more accurately represented by modern Evangelicalism than by modern Fundamentalism, which was derailed by paranoid, obsessive-compulsive individuals early on and continues to be guided by men with obvious psychological disorders.

If you're a Fundamentalist who grooves on Peter Ruckman, Bob Jones University, G.A. Riplinger and Jack Chick, you should read this fine volume to see what your movement was MEANT to be, and how far it's fallen.

Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating and highly informative
Comment: By the turn of the 20th century, new "modern" and liberal teachings (such as Evolution, Higher Criticism, rejection of the reliability of the Bible and rejection of the deity of Christ) had begun to have a serious influence on American churches, provoking debate across the country. In 1909, two Christian laymen, oil magnates Lyman and Milton Stewart, set aside money for the publication of a group of articles, written by well-known orthodox Protestant scholars, spelling out the fundamentals (or essential doctrines for salvation) of the Christian faith. From 1910 to 1915 the scholars published ninety articles, which were eventually compiled into twelve books. These ninety articles defend each of the essential doctrines then perceived to be under attack, and cover such things as the inspiration of Scripture, the virgin birth, deity and substitutionary atonement of Christ, and a host of others.

Though, by the turn of the 21st century, the term "Fundamentalist" has undergone a great deal of change, these Fundamentals harken back to those original Fundamentalists. If you have heard the term "Fundamentalist" used as a pejorative against Christians, and wish to understand what the term really means, then I would highly recommend that you get this book. Being written by scholars, as a scholarly defense, it is somewhat dry in its reading, plus by now some of the issues may seem out of date. But, that said, this is a fascinating and highly informative work of basic theology that I recommend to all believers. I am very glad that I read these Fundamentals, and think that you will be too.