Sentences with phrase «between fundamentalism»

As an Evangelical at UC Berkeley, I was smart enough to sense that academia had me cornered — that I was being forced to decide between fundamentalism and secular Enlightenment — but not smart enough to see beyond the dichotomy on my own.

Spadaro and Figueroa's main contribution is to suggest that Donald Trump — who manifestly is not very interested in religion, nor even particularly good at pretending to be religious — somehow fits into the supposed collusion between fundamentalism and integralism.

There is always a conflict between Fundamentalism and Liberality in maintaining this distinction.

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.

In mid-century it seemed that Lutheranism might be able to avoid the unsatisfactory choice between fundamentalism and liberalism.

Not exact matches

The BioLogos position on origins sits partway between two fundamentalisms: on the «left» end of the spectrum is the fundamentalism of people like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett who are committed to the belief that the only reliable form of knowledge comes from science, and that alternate ways of knowing must be either rejected entirely or completely subordinated to science.

Even the dissidents in the ELCA are divided between denominational Lutherans and evangelical catholics, and the Missouri Synod, with its «biblical fundamentalism,» is not, for him, an option.

As the titles of two of his recent works suggest» Between Relativism and Fundamentalism and In Praise of Doubt» Berger's ethic is more restrained.

The connection between modern fundamentalism and popular culture becomes evident in the language of those who boast that they have met the Lord, that they have a personal relationship with Jesus.

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.

The East - West conflict has become a clash between two fundamentalisms, each of which is allied to a resurgence of nationalism.

While we must leave it for Muslims to deal with the threat of fundamentalism to the faith of Islam, we can not avoid becoming involved when Muslim fundamentalism affects the relationships between the Islamic world and that of the Christian West.

Some of the differences become theologically technical, with distinctions drawn not only between mainline and conservative churches, but also between different varieties of evangelicalism, fundamentalism, and pentecostalism.

Some of the reasons mentioned are: competitive missionary activities in several parts of the world; the re-emergence of tensions between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church concerning the Eastern Rite Catholic churches; the use of humanitarian help to influence people to change their denomination; the growth of religious fundamentalism and the impact of sects and religious movements.

Within the denomination a conflict was brewing between the forces of law and gospel, modernity and tradition, liberalism and fundamentalism.

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.

Based on the works of Ernest Becker, a connection can be made between death and fundamentalism.

A loose parallel might helpfully be drawn between the magazine's changes and the development of revivalism into fundamentalism, prior to fundamentalism's retrenchment in the social arena following the debacle of the Scopes trial and the repeal of Prohibition.

M.N. Srinivas makes a distinction between Orthodoxy and Fundamentalism.

This interpretation fits well with the claim of Ernest Sandeen that fundamentalism should be viewed theologically as a strange coalition between the rising tide of premillennialism that found expression in the prophecy conferences and Bible schools of the late 19th century and the views of Scripture articulated in the high Calvinist theology of.

In America, the country that this article is discussing, there is a war between secularism and fundamentalism.

Like the soon - to - be-beatified John Henry Newman, who coined the phrase and studied what it meant, there are Christians who want to steer safely between the Scylla of fundamentalism and the Charybdis of modernism.

Reality, as a Christian I believe Islam is wrong, but I think we should also be willing to recognize the massive difference between mainstream Islam and Islamic fundamentalism.

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 other theological problem that leaders and theologians of the Holiness movement face is the sorting out of the relationship between the Holiness movement and modern fundamentalism.

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.

Perhaps this is why we see such a strong connection between the extreme political right and religious fundamentalism in the United States and in other primitive backwaters of the world.

The situation I will describe has every hallmark of an intensifying war of survival among battling Christian groups... one between liberalism and fundamentalism and the other between local community churches and broadcast ministries.

They offer a middle option between the extremes of fundamentalism and dogmatic secularism.

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.

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.»

It took place in an atmosphere of respectful listening and learning, consciously seeking a via media between the more - publicised extreme schools of «anti-Darwinian» biblical fundamentalism (young - earth creationism) and «ultra-Darwinian» atheism (scientism).

I saw a debate between him and some hindu teacher, and another man who was questioning his Christian faith, and his every word seem to be bathed in arrogant fundamentalism....

By then, we'd seen profound and disturbing changes in America: a rise in religious fundamentalism, the muddying of the line between church and state, infringements on civil rights in the name of patriotism and national security.

Wael Shawky is concerned with the complex relationship between politics and religion, fundamentalism and capitalism, religious ritual and the role of the media.