The roots of contemporary
Fundamentalism go deep in Protestant history.
The main point of this critique is that
Fundamentalism goes too far in creating a segregated community and has lost its ability to communicate effectively to the culture.
Not exact matches
To «
go soft» on hyper -
fundamentalism on one hand or evangelicalism on the other is to remove from prospective converts the reasons to join this brand of fundamentalist movement.
But to understand the rise of Muslim
fundamentalism we must
go as far back as the 18th century, when Muhammad al - Wahhab founded the Wahhabi movement in Arabia.
Another option is to
go the Way of
Fundamentalism — if important doctrines of your faith conflict with reason, dismiss or radically reinterpret the evidence from reason.
But Abrahamic
fundamentalism and modern liberalism just don't
go together.
A few acknowledge that the contest is most importantly about religion, but then
go on to trivialize that reality by saying we are at war with all forms of «
fundamentalism,» including the «religious right» in this country.
Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers
going to heaven and nonbelievers
going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?
Much attention is being given to the attempt to
go beyond
fundamentalism, but the «new evangelical» theology still tends to sound like either Protestant scholasticism or
fundamentalism.
My third prediction is that the word «evangelical» will
go the way of «
fundamentalism» as its adherents become increasingly homogonous and as the word becomes associated with dogmatism regarding politics, science, women's roles, homosexuality, salvation, and biblical literalism.
The Guardian: Peter Higgs criticizes Richard Dawkins over anti-religious «
fundamentalism» As public disagreements
go, few can have boasted such heavy - hitting antagonists.
Look at the songs of
Fundamentalism: «That will be glory for me... I shall see Him face to face... My sins are
gone... I'm so happy... I'm saved, saved, saved... Love lifted me... He holds my hand... Now I belong to Jesus... Safe am I... My Lord is real, yea, real to me...»
For example, the kind of «biblical theology» sometimes advocated assumes that we should
go forward by taking with utmost seriousness the biblical images or motifs — not the literal, textual stuff of Scripture, which would involve us in a kind of new «
fundamentalism», but the main - line of biblical images.
Personally, I started life as a catholic and later converted to born again
fundamentalism with which I had been deeply involved for 20 + years before
going through a de-conversion process and finally becoming an atheist.
I had to get past the hurt though and stand firm on the biblical truth that
fundamentalism represents and the finished work of the cross in spite of everything seeeming to
go south in my life.
The rest of the European Left never quite
went the neo con distance that Blair et al took the Labour Party, but with a few honourable exceptions, the political surrender to free market
fundamentalism drove many of the social democratic parties to run up the white flag.
So this book proposes a different strategy: think big,
go deep, and move the ideological pole far away from the stifling market
fundamentalism that has become the greatest enemy to planetary health.
I may not like the religious
fundamentalism inherent in the niqab and the burqa but politically I'm reluctant to tell people what to do and legally I can't see this law
going anywhere.