Fundamentalist vs. Calvinist

Machen once said

I never call myself a “Fundamentalist.”  There is indeed, no inherent objection to the term; and if the disjunction is between “Fundamentalism” and “Modernism,” then I am willing to call myself a Fundamentalist of the most pronounced type.  But after all, what I refer to call myself is not a “Fundamentalist” but a “Calvinist” – that is, an adherent to the Reformed Faith.  As such I regard myself as standing in the great central current of the Church’s life – the current which flows down from the Word of God through Augustine and Calvin, and which has found noteworthy expression in America in the great tradition represented by Charles Hodge and Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield and the other representatives of the “Princeton School.”

Hart and Muether quoting Machen in Fighting the Good Fight (Philadelphia: Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1995), 13.

Camden Bucey is the president of Reformed Forum. He graduated with an MDiv in 2011 and is currently a PhD student at Westminster Theological Seminary. Camden is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a licentiate of the presbytery of Philadelphia. You can follow Camden on Twitter at @camdenbucey. This entry was posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 12:17 pm and is filed under Church History. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.