Sentences with phrase «extreme reaction against it»
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.
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this tendency unwittingly by emphasizing the narrowly cultic and liturgical elements in the Christian life to such an extent that the cry for desacralization becomes the inevitable extreme reaction against it.
Not exact matches
I think hes a bit extreme in many ways as a reaction against extreme views in the other direction, be they institutional or anti structure and leadership.