Sentences with phrase «against fundamentalism»

A tense build up of emotions, carefully considered in its exposure of diametrically opposed concerns over militar, political and moral action in the current technological war against fundamentalism.

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.

He affirms the catholic integration of Church and Scripture against fundamentalism and «modern rationalist historicism.»

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

Not exact matches

that she alone would protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalisation if elected president in May.

that she alone would protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalization if elected president in May.

Webster argues against Kavanagh's prioritization of liturgy, saying that the chief evil of fundamentalism is not, contra Kavanagh, that «scripture has been severed from its liturgical context, but that it has been severed from its Trinitarian context.»

that is a fundamentalism against which there is no discussion.

The Islamic world encounters the face of Christian fundamentalism in the trigger - happy fundamentalist cowboy from Texas who, as president of the most powerful nation on earth, is ready to wage war against any nation that stands in the way of America's economic interests.

Which is why fundamentalism is on the rise: it's a defensive mechanism against the increasing gloom.

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.

Niebuhr directed most of his polemic against liberal churches, possibly because he seemed to have despaired of theological fundamentalism and felt it was beyond redemption.

Many chapters show that as an establishment this one was built on prejudices — against Catholicism chiefly, but also against Zionist Judaism, fundamentalism, and even black Protestantism.

Religious and ideological fundamentalism, then, appears within modernity (perhaps paradoxically) as a defense against these questions.

As a fellow - thread participant observed: there's no «gospel» in these series — but rather a victimized reaction against the restrictive and confining bind of the fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.

One of the chief differences between the two fundamentalisms is that Christian fundamentalism is fighting against something which has its seeds within Christianity, whereas Muslim fundamentalism has set itself the task of eliminating all the evil influences which have come from the outside.

The gathering follows a warning from the Catholic Church that «with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, attacks against Christians are increasing almost everywhere.»

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.

His impression is that the Fundamentalist is more concerned with his code than with the vast spiritual issues of life — love, kindness, patience, tolerance, pride, self - righteousness, bitterness, or humility... It is against this mind - set in Fundamentalism that the writer wishes to protest.

So I remain in my fundamentalism (say) even as I think I'm striking OUT (against it), whacking the porcupine, so to speak.

Then, sayeth the «guru» after much meditation on these matters... «My head shall be a bangin» against the evil doctrine of fundamentalism»

Towards the end of the century an extreme reaction against any accomodation to higher criticism gave rise to the beginnings of Fundamentalism — stressing what its adherents believed were the basic tenets of the Gospel — a movement which was to assume larger dimensions after 1914.

The coverage of the resulting Scopes «monkey trial» in 1925 turned the American public against religious fundamentalism for a generation, and the persistent campaigns against evolution drove most scientists into the Republican Party.

Market fundamentalism that not only trivializes democratic values and public concerns, but also enshrines a rabid individualism, an all - embracing quest for profits, and a social Darwinism in which misfortune is seen as a weakness and a Hobbesian «war of all against all» replaces any vestige of shared responsibilities or compassion for others.

Fundamentalism, as one of the chief protests against this modern ethos, is not likely to disappear.

The Geometry of God is a novel one can read greedily, following four characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zia's Pakistan, where religious fundamentalism gains ground and the mujaheddin is funded by gem sales and the Americans.

Starting out in that fateful year for religion, 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews and the Muslims from Spain and opened virgin Christian missionary territory in America, Armstrong tells the story of fundamentalism in the world's great monotheisms and argues that it is as much a product of modernity as the materialism and empiricism against which it fearfully reacts.

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism.

In bottom - up fundamentalism, certainly as practiced by Third Avenue Funds, investment risk is guarded against by obtaining detailed knowledge about companies and the securities they issue and by being acutely price conscious when acquiring securities.

Amid the current turmoil of fundamentalisms and atheism, Ryman may also have been thinking of Pascal's wager, concerning the existence of God: Rather bet on it and lose than bet against it and lose.