Sentences with phrase «new fundamentalism»

Given the cultural and ideological relativism that seems to be the norm these days, it is perhaps not surprising that some have latched on to the climate change issue as a new fundamentalism.

PRESS RELEASE: Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism, co-written by Rachelle Peterson and NAS president Peter Wood, is now available at Amazon.com and bookstores nationwide.

These moving, and ostensibly sincere, words were pronounced by Richard Dawkins at the «Atheism is the new fundamentalism» debate staged by the U.K. - based organization Intelligence Squared in November 2009.

Not exact matches

According to a blog post on the association's website, «The Learning Channel's new show All - American Muslim is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present - day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law.»

My initial reaction was that New Atheism has come full - circle and descended into the sort of self - parody seen on the fringes of Christian fundamentalism.

The new environmentalism was peopled by many of the same activists who had been instrumental in the anti-America's - war - in - Vietnam movement, and, in subsequent decades, the new environmentalism has displayed characteristics similar to the fundamentalism or fideism of those who cling to the wreckage of the conventional narrative of America - in - Vietnam.

-- the only substantively new part of his book — ranges from religious fundamentalism to Middle Eastern politics to the sexual - abuse crisis, yet it mentions Jesus Christ only once.

The new threats to it is from the revival of religious fundamentalism and communalism and its political expressions, especially in the Hindutva demand for a Hindu Rashtra.

It is this which lies behind the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and manifests the clash of fundamentalisms par excellence.

I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy, theology, all of which are pertinent to the religious significance of Darwinism.3 What many seem not to understand is that the crux of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two kinds of theism and two kinds of evolutionism.

With such major centers of the new evangelicalism as Fuller Seminary now showing a good deal more affinity to neo-orthodoxy than to fundamentalism (see Gerald T. Sheppard, «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review 32 [Winter 1977, pp. 81 - 94]-RRB-, surely we must be cautious both about assuming flatly a «decline» of classic liberalism and about implying a one - to - one relation between the liberal ideologies, whatever their current condition, and the oldline denominational structures.

The elite domination, continuing misery of the poor, rise of religious fundamentalism, impact of new economic policies, ecological crisis, and so on.

Hence Mark Silk can write of the rise of the «new evangelicalism» in the 1940s, the era of Billy Graham and Christianity Today and of meaner movements, militant and intolerant fundamentalisms.

But he adds, Fundamentalism has to be distinguished from Orthodoxy; for while the latter involves strict adherence to tradition, the former interprets tradition for political purposes» («Towards a New Philosophy» in The Times of India 9.7.93).

It was attacked by a new method, devised by an unexpected force: Islamic fundamentalism.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

More recently, with the Punjab as the locus of one of the most successful areas of the «green revolution,» the sect has experienced upward mobility accompanied by a new burst of militant fundamentalism.

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.

But anyone who believes that democracy and religious fundamentalism can not co-exist has not been paying attention to how fundamentalist Christians have strengthened American democracy, Jonathan Zimmerman, a history professor at New York University says in a provocative recent Christian Science Monitor article.

No crisis of faith upon leaving fundamentalism, as many of us have undergone — just a new line of work.

New religious movements seem to be born every day; on all continents and in all faiths, fundamentalism is unlikely to prove transitory; and even liberal Christianity may find itself threatened by a new reformation emanating from the geographic SouNew religious movements seem to be born every day; on all continents and in all faiths, fundamentalism is unlikely to prove transitory; and even liberal Christianity may find itself threatened by a new reformation emanating from the geographic Sounew reformation emanating from the geographic South.

On this score, suffice it to add only that if a resurgent fundamentalism confirms that the truth of the Christian witness continues to be a problem for theology as well as the church, the support currently being shown by Christians for the reactionary politics of the New Right makes only too clear that the same is true of the justice of their witness as well.

He is currently at work on another introductory volume on Paul, a study of the importance of both the internal and external aspects (that is, both the beliefs and practices) of Judaism and Christianity, and, in a new direction, a consideration of democracy, Christianity and fundamentalism.

I thought that this subject could really augment our discussion surrounding my recent post about A New Kind of Fundamentalism, in which I argue that a commitment to love God and love people provides the foundation for the Christian faith.

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.

I wish to show that fundamentalism, while appealing to the past, is actually a new and modern religious phenomenon, and one that does not faithfully represent the faith in the way it claims to.

Above all, Christian fundamentalism fails to understand how and why the new secular humanism has evolved out of Christendom in much the same way as Christianity evolved out of Judaism.

Together with other developments in the «new science» it caused a series of reactions among Protestants which by the early twentieth century had resulted in a sharp cleavage between liberalism and fundamentalism.

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

The fundamentalists I knew as a child would have dismissed Beck as a cult leader, but this is a new kind of fundamentalism.

Yet in other respects — notably our ecclesiastical diversity, the freedom of the Church from state control, and the predominance of liberalism and fundamentalism rather than the new orthodoxy as the prevailing theological climate — our situation is different, and it will sharpen the discussion to keep it within such bounds.

What is more, the New Synthesis supports orthodox Catholicism in a manner that avoids the dangers of fundamentalism and fideism, real dangers for so much neo-orthodoxy.

That older coalition of Congregationalists, Baptists, and New School Presbyterians combined dispensationalism, celebrity revivalism, and fundamentalism — the very traits that Old School Presbyterians disliked then and now.

(Might the move of many Hispanics into Pentecostalism, fundamentalism and sometimes evangelicalism represent that rare thing in American religion, the move of a cohort into a new camp?

Following World War II, Pentecostals developed a thriving friendship with the emerging «New Evangelicals» - a welcome recast of souring pre-war Fundamentalism - in which strong roles were played by persons like Harold Ockenga and Billy Graham and by institutions like Christianity Today, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).

She might perhaps equally be called a co-foundress of that Secular Fundamentalism and moral libertarianism that is fast becoming the new state religion in modern Britain.

I love Godin's perspective on fundamentalism and curiosity, and I'd like to think that I'm the kind of person who «embraces the tension between [her] religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.»

The real point is that any genuine Labour policies are a world away from market fundamentalism, deregulated finance, indiscriminate privatisation of public services, fostering of inequality, and courting of Big Business, all of which both New Labour and the Tories agree on.

Where I live, in the Bay Area, you're as likely to run into New Age superstition as Christian fundamentalism.

The increased visibility of radical Christian fundamentalism would seem to shine a new light on John Doe, and the omnipresence of themes of vigilantism could have done the same for all involved (before his identity is revealed, Doe's costume even looks a lot like Rorschach's).

In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.

Everyone I've informed about the basic geography of the world of THT is astonished to find out that Gilead is New England and the center of Christian fundamentalism in Atwood's world is Cambridge Mass..

His publications include Art and Psychedelia (2013), The Critical Mass of Mediation (2012), The Model: A Model for Qualitative Society, 1968 (2010), and Fundamentalisms of the New Order (2004), as well as being a regular contributor to Artforum, Afterall and Frieze.

That, the artists say, galvanized them to explore new subject matter: fundamentalism and what Mr. Passmore calls youthful «hooliganism.»

In The Independent, David Usborne reports that Currin is trying to cast these new works in the context of Islamic fundamentalism.

Late in June, I interviewed British psychoanalyst and prolific essayist Adam Phillips about his new collection of essays, On Balance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which ranges over fundamentalism, W. H. Auden, sleep, and the idea of excess.

The sheer volume of vicious language employed to recast social and cultural trends in terms of their carbon footprint suggests the rise of what Allenby calls a dangerous new «carbon fundamentalism.»