No doubt the cults of Eastern import illustrate the assertion best, but so do «cults» devoted to political radicalism, communalism, mind - altering drugs, or
Protestant fundamentalism.
Conservative
Protestant fundamentalism has a large and, by some measures, growing following in America.
Some of the more authoritarian of our Asian religions might provide a sufficiently doctrinaire model but their small following in comparison with
Protestant fundamentalism virtually rules them out.
Perhaps the most likely system would be right - wing
Protestant fundamentalism.
So I think that's what you're seeing right now: The dominant force in the discussion about religion in America since the late»40s and»50s has been American
Protestant fundamentalism.
For example, sectors of the population whose prosperity is linked to protectionist, domestic, or autarkic policies may well emphasize traditional morality, American particularism, and the localistic - familial values of
Protestant fundamentalism.
Hyperseparationism is often a symptom of the fear of imperialistic faith groups (supposedly) seeking to dominate society and government (as most faith groups would like to do — in the sense of wanting their vision for all humankind to prevail) Prior to the 1960s the Roman Catholic Church may have aroused that anxiety; more recently
Protestant fundamentalism has stirred it.
Christian Zionism has significant support within
Protestant fundamentalism, including much of the Southern Baptist Convention and the charismatic, Pentecostal and independent churches.
Not exact matches
The roots of contemporary
Fundamentalism go deep in
Protestant history.
On some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial
fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal
Protestants.
For many, the path that led from the historic patterns of
Protestant pietism to ecumenically engaged, socially involved and intellectually critical evangelicalism, and away from constrictive
fundamentalism, forked at Rauschenbusch.
«They no longer have to prove to
Protestants that they are evangelical,» he observes, «and as their numbers increase and they move farther away from their origins in North America, they are less influenced by
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.
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.
Conservative
Protestant theology — especially those elements influenced by
fundamentalism — is seen as suffering a kind of hubris with regard to truth - claims.
At first this criticism was limited to
fundamentalism's conservative culture and its conservative political leanings; but the criticism has gradually, one is tempted to say inexorably, been extended to include conservative
Protestant theology as well.
As we saw in the first chapter, Christian
fundamentalism first became evident when one section of
Protestants, sharing a particular set of dogmatic convictions, unconsciously imposed these on the Bible.
Acoemetae Adelophagi Adventist Movement amillennialism Amish Anabaptism Arminian Theology Assemblies of God Augustinians Baptists Benedictines Cahenslyism Calvinism Capuchins Carmelites Christadelphians Christian Identity Church of Christ Church of England Church Universal and Triumphant Congregationalism Coptic Christianity dispensationalism Dominicans Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian Christianity Evangelicalism Franciscans
fundamentalism Gnosticism Huguenots Hutterites IURD Jehovah's Witnesses Liberation Theology Lutheran Church Mainline
Protestant Maronites Mendicant Orders Mennonites Methodism Neo-Orthodoxy Old Catholic Movement Pentecostal Church People's Temple Pietism Pilgrims postmillennialism premillennialism Presbyterian Church Primitivism
Protestant Puritanism Quakers Quietism Roman Catholicism Sabbatarianism Scholasticism Shakers Spiritual Baptists staret Thomas Christians Thomism Transcendentalism Trinitarianism Unification Church Unitarian Universalist Unitarianism United Church of Christ
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.
fundamentalism: a form of a religion, especially Islam or
Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
As the specificity of their Christianity became diluted, liberal
Protestants» identity in the universities rested increasingly on ethnic and class alliances, or on the alliance with secularists against
fundamentalism and other perceived bigotries.
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.
The contrasting notion, the notion that the Bible is sincere, was born in some long, wet chilly Northern European
Protestant winter and unhappily exported to America, where it devolved into
fundamentalism.
On the
Protestant side, he tried to stake out a via media between the compromised theology of Harry Emerson Fosdick and his successors on the one hand and the truncated ecclesiology and harsh temperament of sectarian
fundamentalism on the other.
By this time
Protestant Liberalism was also less vigorous and was being successfully countered by a strong reactionary movement which came to be known as
fundamentalism.