Sentences with phrase «about fundamentalism»

If a viewer wants to draw conclusions about fundamentalism's sometimes creepy sense of certainty, there is evidence for that, too.

I've been thinking about this mainly because of the discussions we've been having here about fundamentalism.

What is novel about fundamentalism is not the honouring of Holy Scripture, but the way in which it is done.

Therefore, if people want to understand the world in which they live, they may find it necessary to understand something about fundamentalism.

In his review of Fundamentalism Observed, edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Wuthnow describes the commonalities and distinctions among various religious fundamental movements in the world and corrects numerous myths and misunderstandings about fundamentalism with scholarly research.

Carpenter makes the case for this modest but important assertion as well as anyone who has written about fundamentalism in recent years.

She explained through tears that she had just broken up with her fiance, and since I purportedly knew something about fundamentalism, she hoped that I might be able to offer a word or two of advice.

CNN doesn't seem to want rational debates about fundamentalism.

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.»

If Muslims would stop talking about their religion — Mullah's preaching would stop, Fatiwah's would decease, Hindu fundamentalism would be stifled, and Christian Fundamentalists couldn't muster support for social policies of the conservatives etc..

This was not true for me, and it is not true for many of the young adults who leave college with questions about science, philosophy, politics, and religious pluralism that challenge the fundamentalism with which they were raised.

There is nothing I could say about blind fundamentalism that would illustrate the fallacy of such thinking as clearly as do your own posts.

The main problem with the Way of Fundamentalism is that if you decide carte blanche that there are doctrines of faith that can not be scrutinized by reason, you risk making huge mistakes about your faith.

It seems as if science has backed christian fundamentalism into a corner and the christians aren't quite sure how to react about it.

Talking about acceptance and diversity allows mainline churches to signal their adherence to the canons of liberalism and to erect symbolic boundaries against fundamentalism.

Don't get me wrong, it is only a tiny fraction of the Muslim population that radicalizes and starts pushing fundamentalism, but because the rest of the Muslim community does nothing about it, they are irrelevant.

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.

The editors provide a framework to help us think about the common characteristics of global fundamentalism, and offer some tentative conclusions.

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.

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.

A complex father - son relationship lies at the heart of Shinn's nuanced and thought - provoking drama about freedom of speech, the West's relationship with the Muslim world, the challenges to gay rights, presidential politics, the contradictions of liberalism, and the perils of fundamentalism, whatever the religion.

Here, too, there is a certain dated spirit about the book that may arise from Barr's own more immediate emergence from fundamentalism.

I can't say enough about these cartoons, oh BTW, Your slice of fundamentalism is back up and running.

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.

The renaissance of Islamic culture and politics, the rebirth of Shinto in Japan, the appearance of powerful Jewish, Hindu and Christian «fundamentalisms» in Israel, India and the U.S. — all these have raised important questions about the allegedly ineluctable process of secularization.

When talking about the Christians who cherrypick their theology so they ignore the poor while focusing on «hot - button» issues, he caricatures his own «fundamentalism» when it comes to justice and jubilee.

It's like declaring modern fundamentalism the victor and conceding that the skeptics were right all along about how this whole thing was nothing more than a fad.

If the major sin of fundamentalism has been naïveté about the historicity of the Bible, the major sin of liberalism has been naïveté about the perversity of its readers.

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.

It differs from traditional fundamentalism in that it acknowledges love a fundamental element of faith, but it remains distinct from mere moralism in that it includes certain basic beliefs about God and Jesus Christ.

As he once castigated the Pharisees for being «blind guides», so fundamentalism fails to see in the secular global world genuine signs of what Jesus once talked about in terms of the Kingdom of God.

Niebuhr talked about this movement, as was then common, as simply «Fundamentalism,» and it was clearly an outlook for which he had little time.

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.

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.

Fundamentalism is about unquestionable religious ideology.

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.

You know you've been on Christian internet too long when you see a «Switch to Progressive» ad and think it's about leaving fundamentalism.

Being in Australia I hadn't hear about this incident (although Wheaton's fundamentalism is not unknown to me, even here), so I Googled it.

At a meeting in Sydney at which John Shelby Spong, the Episcopal bishop of Newark in the US, spoke about his book Saving the Bible from Fundamentalism, an ex-fundamentalist and skeptical young man asked Bishop Spong this question.

In other words, the two sermons do not differ in many of the ways we might have expected them to on the basis of preconceived notions about liberalism and fundamentalism.

They are abstractions: they represent a thematization of fundamentalist culture, an extraction from observations, a way of summarizing what fundamentalism is supposedly all about.

Phil Reynolds reviews Chris Morris» Four Lions - a surprisingly intelligent film about our cultural fears on suicide bombers and fundamentalism

Liberal democracy is not about politicised justice, amoral familism, xenophobic nationalism, or religious fundamentalism.

Investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet has written extensively about the influential group in his book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.

No doubt this expresses the author's fundamentalism, derived from his scientific and religious readings, about the power of connectedness.

For this reason, college science exams are just like college exams in any subject except you can't just make up something about Chaucer and structuralized fundamentalism and hope for partial credit.

I suspect that much support for religious «fundamentalism», and for that gentler but still worrying sentimentality, is due to a deep but inarticulate sense that there is something dangerously bogus about science, particularly that which pretends to tell us about ourselves.

In a boom time for movies about the scars of the battlefield, Half Moon reminds that the unending strife and religious fundamentalism of the Middle East kills not just people but culture too.

In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.