Campus Seeks to Shed Fundamentalist Label
GREENVILLE, S.C.--The president of Bob Jones University says that he wants to shed the school’s fundamentalist label because the term has been equated with terrorist in the minds of many people since Sept. 11.
Bob Jones III has suggested using the word “preservationist” to describe Christians with a fierce belief in the Bible’s literal, inerrant truth.
“Instead of ‘Fundamentalism’ defining us as steadfast Bible believers, the term now carries overtones of radicalism and terrorism,” writes Bob Jones III in his “President’s Corner” column on the university Web site, www.bju.edu/aboutbju/aboutbju.asp?section =president.
University spokesman Jonathan Pait said the university remains “unashamedly fundamentalist.”
Pait accused the media of lumping Christian fundamentalists with Islamic fundamentalists.
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