Sentences with phrase «fundamentalism tends»

Fundamentalism tends to arise in lower and lower - middle classes at times of class mobility.

Rather, fundamentalism tends to oppose pluralism, preferring authoritarian social structures, whether of the right or the left.

Not exact matches

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

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.

Because fundamentalism must draw its adherents from among those who are outside the religious mainstream, it tends to ally with populist extremes.

Liberals tend to want to make it all about this world... Fundamentalism seem only concerned about the next life... Jesus was clearly and consistently both / and.

It's interesting to me that American Catholics tend not to have the same sort of antagonistic relationship with science because the pope has an honest - to - goodness observatory with award - winning scientists doing real research; because at least right now, fundamentalism is not the overriding or abiding ideology in the Catholic Church — although there are a wing of Catholic fundamentalists in the U.S. right now that are influenced by their conservative evangelical Protestant brothers and sisters.

When it comes to «selective fundamentalism,» I tend to wag my finger at other people — those who consider Fox News a reliable source of information, those who protest intensely against abortion but have nothing to say about poverty or torture or excessive materialism, those who consider Anne Coulter a representation of Christian values.

Jesus (* 1/2 / ****, d. Dennison Ramalho) A broad swipe at fundamentalism that ends on the sort of ambiguous note that tends to undermine whatever its ostensible message might have been.