Sentences with word «fundamentalism»

It appears that the kind of fundamentalism in which the Christian believer turned biblical debunker was raised did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in college.

Having been exposed to the religious fundamentalism of Bible Belt culture all my life, I recognize the symptoms: the pride, the fear, the huddling together, the ostracizing of the «other.»

To end on a non-political note, OTM also examined the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a televangelist before television and a fascinating figure in the development of both media stardom and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America, as well as at Slate's recent slideshow on the history of racist product spokescharacters.

It aims to counter the rise of Christian fundamentalism by means of holding conferences and seminars that will bring church congregations up to date with biblical scholarship.

But now the Church will have its revenge: through the machinations of the Pope, official Catholicism has forged a tactical alliance with Islamic fundamentalism in order to roll back, and then rout, the Enlightenment heritage.

(3) Related to this enlightenment location of Wesleyanism is the fact that Wesleyanism differs from fundamentalism in its analysis of the human problem.

He is convinced that there exists an obvious instrument for putting social democracy into practice - the central national state, whose strength has been underestimated, he argues, in a rush of market fundamentalism on both left and right.

While the authors attack the evangelicals who broke with fundamentalism in 1947, they find themselves under attack from hyper - fundamentalist, rigorist separationists who see them seeking respectability and political power — in short, being exactly where the neoevangelicals were in 1947.

The book is not specifically religious, so I was a bit surprised to bump into what I thought was a really interesting assessment of religious fundamentalism on page 63, where Godin writes:

«Reassertion» is a decisive term here, for fundamentalism seems to rise when the authoritative bearers of a religious tradition are perceived as falling into intellectual drift — when those responsible for cultivating and propagating the vision do not, can not or will not defend the fundamentals that give the vision articulate form, or when they begin to advocate changing the definition of what is fundamental.

I would also be inclined to give greater emphasis to the more «classical» roots of modern fundamentalism in the post-Reformation traditions of both Reformed and Lutheran scholasticism and perhaps be willing to suggest that the line is not so totally devoid of theological insight as Barr seems to indicate.

In reference to an earlier post about fundamentalism causing harm to so many people......» the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life» has been much worse.

ONLY American Fundamentalism does the disbelief as moral choice thing.

In such a context Barr's book is a special threat that is more likely to produce the falling back into fundamentalism that he fears.

But leaving fundamentalism doesn't mean leaving behind your self - respect or your commitment to imitating Christ.

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.

Many parents have also initiated holding their own meetings to discuss Islamic fundamentalism at the school.

Abderrahmane Sissako's story of the fight against fundamentalism in his native Mali had been expected to pick up a prize or two last Saturday.

Being enslaved to scripture, as religious fundamentalism does, is to elevate that scripture to a place of undue allegiance.

She is wise in her middle way between fundamentalism about religious symbols and the cynical deconstruction of religious symbols.

What is now called 9/11 focussed our minds on so - called fundamentalism.

Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism by David Landau Hill & Wang / FSG, 334 pages, $ 27.50 In 1988, when the ultra-Orthodox parties won a telling percentage of the vote in the Israeli election, many secular Jews found themselves forced for the first time to reckon with an Orthodoxy that....

Every religion is based on certain fundamentals; and fundamentalism arises when these fundamentals are imperiled, obscured or ignored.

I'd suggest that we have seen some fine examples of secular fundamentalism in the news this week.

Fundamentalism tends to arise in prophetic religious traditions.

They've chosen willful ignorance over thoughtful inquiry, I say, the safety of fundamentalism over the risk of inclusive love.

The NAS published the full report Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism on March 25, 2015.

Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby University of Chicago Press, 872 pages, $ 40

Such «moral fundamentalism» is wrong, Johnson argues.

Another reason to for Americans to embrace the political wisdom of our Founders in prohibiting the establishment of a civil religion, especially with the challenge of theocratic fundamentalism coming from many Red State Christians.

If we are to understand fundamentalism better, we must question some of our assumptions.

It's the quintessential win - win situation... they get to preach their message and hope the magic happens, but if not, they justifiably and righteously condemn the sinner, and here's the rub, both outcomes are wonderfully supported by ample scriptural proofs.And we wonder why fundamentalism is so appealing....

The principle most often associated with Mormon fundamentalism is plural marriage, a form of polygyny first taught by Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Red State (Director & Screenwriter: Kevin Smith)-- A group of misfits encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America.

Many of them would say that the old guard of evangelical theology has itself been slipping down a disastrous slope for at least two decades (since the publication of Harold Lindsell's Battle for the Bible)-- back toward fundamentalism.

This is what fundamentalism does.

Such fundamentalism is an intellectual dead end.

The roots of contemporary Fundamentalism go deep in Protestant history.

He adds that encountering fundamentalism on rigidly political lines is not enough; «alternatives have to be explored within the larger secular drives of neo-religious forms and philosophies» (p. 92).

Although I do not agree with all of President Obama's policies, I like the fact that he is exposing America to another strain of Christianity, just as «mainstream» as conservative fundamentalism.

I like to call this new movement atheist fundamentalism.

I'm from Utah, and don't support polygamy, but I just don't see fundamentalism as a huge drain on federal welfare programs.