What is a Christian fundamentalist?

[jasonc]

Here it is called "residues of Roman Catholicism".

"Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable residues of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew increasingly unsympathetic to Puritan demands. They insisted that the Puritans conform to religious practices that they abhorred, removing their ministers from office and threatening them with "extirpation from the earth" if they did not fall in line. Zealous Puritan laymen received savage punishments. For example, in 1630 a man was sentenced to life imprisonment, had his property confiscated, his nose slit, an ear cut off, and his forehead branded "S.S." (sower of sedition).

Beginning in 1630 as many as 20,000 Puritans emigrated to America from England to gain the liberty to worship God as they chose. Most settled in New England, but some went as far as the West Indies. Theologically, the Puritans were "non-separating Congregationalists." Unlike the Pilgrims, who came to Massachusetts in 1620, the Puritans believed that the Church of England was a true church, though in need of major reforms. Every New England Congregational church was considered an independent entity, beholden to no hierarchy. The membership was composed, at least initially, of men and women who had undergone a conversion experience and could prove it to other members. Puritan leaders hoped (futilely, as it turned out) that, once their experiment was successful, England would imitate it by instituting a church order modeled after the New England Way."

America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Part 1 - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)

Many of the British colonies that eventually formed the United States were settled by men and women, who, in the face of European persecution, refused to compromise their religious convictions and fled Europe.

www.loc.gov

The only colony to have freedom for Catholics was the colony under Forsyth ,aka Georgia

 

[Whatever]

Puritan laymen received savage punishments.

John Bunyan (1628-1688) spent 12 years in prison for not conforming to the demands. He wrote Pilgrim's Progress while in prison.

 

[Dave...]

Labels are used to divide Christians into categories.


Labels = Division.


But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
Matthew 12:25

Aren't the labels just defining the divisions that are already there with a phrase or a term?

Kind of like, reformed, or trinity. Those words didn't create the doctrines, or any divisions that came from them, they just defined an idea or a school of thought into a term or phrase to save time.

 

[JLB]

Aren't the labels just defining the divisions that are already there with a phrase or a term?

Kind of like, reformed, or trinity. Those words didn't create the doctrines, or any divisions that came from them, they just defined an idea or a school of thought into a term or phrase to save time.

At some point the label created the division.

You have a believer stating and certain truth in scripture and someone decides to label them a baptist, or Pentecostal or charismatic or a Methodist or Reformed or Messianic….