Heretics and Politics by Thomas A. Fudge

[RunningOnFaith]

Thomas Fudge's "Christianity without the Cross" has been the subject of much discussion on AFF down through the years. Some my be interested to learn that Fudge has written a new book about the UPC.

Heretics and Politics: Theology, Power, and Perception in the Last Days of CBC

Blurb:
The United Pentecostal Church-sponsored Conquerors Bible College was founded in Portland, Oregon in 1953. It closed abruptly in 1983. The denomination attributed the failure of the college to financial causes. Heretics and Politics argues that the financial crisis at CBC was rooted in theological controversy, church politics, conflicting models of education, and sustained suspicions of heresy. In seeking to delineate the several factors which destroyed CBC, historian Thomas A. Fudge has looked closely at the context, critically assessed a wide range of surviving documents, and taken into account the diversity of oral history. The narrative is neither an institutional history nor a biographical account. Instead, it explores the challenge of formal education within the UPC and evaluates the politics of change within that denomination in the Pacific Northwest. Both issues are assessed through the prism of CBC. The story of the last days of CBC illuminates important developments in the Pacific Northwest. The story is told against the broader canvas of events transpiring within American religious history. Heretics and Politics is the first book to deal with any aspect of the history of CBC. Its probing narrative chronicles both institutional upheaval and personal tragedy.

[Disciple4life]

Finally Fudge came out with a new book!!! YES!! Now we all have something new to fight about!!!!!

[Disciple4life]

I pulled this off of another thread.

Thomas Fudge was a member of the United Pentecostal Church from 1964 to 1984. He worked in churches in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia in Canada, and in Oregon, Washington and Idaho in the United States.

His early studies were taken at Conquerors Bible College in Portland, Oregon.

He lists among his mentors and significant spiritual and theological influences, former United Pentecostal Church ministers C.H. Yadon and Don Fisher, as well as his father James G. Fudge who is presently an ordained minister in the United Pentecostal Church.

Subsequent to 1984 he has worked for the American Baptist Church, the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Evangelical Covenant Church, the United Methodist Church and the Anglican Church in New Zealand. He has several years of ministerial experience and previously served as pastor of the Church of our Redeemer in Oregon.

[bkstokes]

I liked how Fudge described the difference between one steppers and 3 steppers in his first book.

[aegsm76]

Fudge reminds me of a scientist who writes out his hypothesis, then sets out trying to find the proof by throwing out everything that disagrees with it...

[Reader]

Aegsm76, have you read the book?

[Disciple4life]

I think Dr. Fudge has a point of view. It differs from the position of the UPCI. It looks like he wants to get the word out that there is a difference of opinion on certain doctrines/teachings/views.

Looking at the footnotes on Christianity Without The Cross it is hard to believe that he didn't document properly where he got his information.

[aegsm76]

Yes, for CWOC, but not the latest.
As someone who also had a very good inside track to what happened at CBC, I stand by my opinion of his latest "tempest in a teapot" book.

[Disciple4life]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Yes, for CWOC, but not the latest.
As someone who also had a very good inside track to what happened at CBC, I stand by my opinion of his latest "tempest in a teapot" book.

Well I would like to hear you thoughts on the matter. Care to share?

[Reader]

How can you say that when you have no clue what he wrote in the CBC book?