Sentences with phrase «fundamentalism at»

In part a historical recreation, The Witch's reverent dialogue (lifted from journals of actual period appropriate settlers) gives it an otherworldly feel that's amplified by the religious fundamentalism at the core of Roger Egger's dingy little feature.

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.

In spite of some skepticism concerning my sincerity in saying that we all have elements of fundamentalism at some time or another over some issue or another, I still would assert this point.

This leave - taking and reorienting is a common path, one followed by many who are drawn to fundamentalism at certain moments in their lives.

Fundamentalism at the time called it «neo-evangelism» and that was no compliment.

The Christian West polarised even further into a moderate form of fundamentalism at one end and, at the other, into a Christian humanism which showed decreasing interest in supporting the ecclesiastical institution.

Not exact matches

At least not fundamentalism!

Drunkenness may not be at the top of God's list of most heinous sins; neither should it be tossed aside as a relic of American fundamentalism.

Over at Ebon Musings, one atheist writer offers a challenge to theists who claim that all atheists are closed - minded and exhibit their own brand of fundamentalism.

It was in this way that fundamentalism, under the guise of evangelicalism, was becoming more dominant in the churches at the very same time as academic theology and biblical scholarship were becoming more radical.

Authors Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson, professors at Liberty Baptist College in Virginia, base their reasonably balanced effort to define and locate fundamentalism on a wide reading of secondary sources and present a convenient summary as well as a campaign document.

For many, the path that led from the historic patterns of Protestant pietism to ecumenically engaged, socially involved and intellectually critical evangelicalism, and away from constrictive fundamentalism, forked at Rauschenbusch.

I've come to accept the fact that I will never recover from my anger at the church, at fundamentalism, at anything even remotely spiritual... it's taken on overtones of PTSD.

Until the early 1970s historians of Pentecostalism argued that the movement emerged ex nihilo at the turn of this century as an alternative to fundamentalism in protesting the modernist trend that was capturing mainline Protestantism.

«My arguments are like a dagger pointing at the heart of fundamentalism,» he said.

But first we shall look at that which applies to all fundamentalisms.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

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.

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.

At first, liberals widely assumed that the rise of fundamentalism was but a temporary phenomenon which would soon fade away.

A fundamentalist need not be communalist at all... On the other hand a communalist need not be a fundamentalist at all... Fundamentalism requires to be opposed by all Humanists and Democrats, but that opposition should not be mixed up with an opposition to communalism.

The demand for exclusivity and the shunning is the beginning of the end for fundamentalism... at least I can hope.

We had actually been warned, at least in a general way, that fundamentalism could be very dangerous.

Yet it is this very process of rational justification that makes fundamentalism a very modern phenomenon, one that sets it at odds with the more ancient tradition of inerrancy found within the Church.»

At the time, fundamentalism was a decent and useful word.

At moments Sweeney seems to be trying too hard to be gentle with his heritage, but he offers a memorable look at the way fundamentalism — for good and for ill — shapes a life long after its tenets have been left behinAt moments Sweeney seems to be trying too hard to be gentle with his heritage, but he offers a memorable look at the way fundamentalism — for good and for ill — shapes a life long after its tenets have been left behinat the way fundamentalism — for good and for ill — shapes a life long after its tenets have been left behind.

Class mobility, however, occurs in many places and at many times without rendering a fundamentalism.

But anyone who believes that democracy and religious fundamentalism can not co-exist has not been paying attention to how fundamentalist Christians have strengthened American democracy, Jonathan Zimmerman, a history professor at New York University says in a provocative recent Christian Science Monitor article.

Fundamentalism tends to arise in lower and lower - middle classes at times of class mobility.

Well, for one thing, didn't fundamentalism start at the beginning of the last century?

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.

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.

Moreover, it maintained, Niebuhr himself relied on that method; he surely had not arrived at his views via fundamentalism.

If the right to critique Darwinism is at stake, how does that advance a biblical theology of a good creation and the sacredness of all life — a more positive approach than a reactionary Evangelicalism evolved from a world - denying fundamentalism?

At first this criticism was limited to fundamentalism's conservative culture and its conservative political leanings; but the criticism has gradually, one is tempted to say inexorably, been extended to include conservative Protestant theology as well.

are beginning to take; purposely forgetting the reporter, at the end of the debat; «we» resorted to our own version of western fundamentalism; bickering with people who are happy to argue words all day; as means of fortifying our stand.

Look at the songs of Fundamentalism: «That will be glory for me... I shall see Him face to face... My sins are gone... I'm so happy... I'm saved, saved, saved... Love lifted me... He holds my hand... Now I belong to Jesus... Safe am I... My Lord is real, yea, real to me...»

He is currently at work on another introductory volume on Paul, a study of the importance of both the internal and external aspects (that is, both the beliefs and practices) of Judaism and Christianity, and, in a new direction, a consideration of democracy, Christianity and fundamentalism.

George M. Marsden teaches in the Divinity School at Duke University and is the author of Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth - Century Evangelism, 1870 - 1925.

According to that yardstick, vitality, at least intuitively, seems to increase with fundamentalism and decrease with the broadened perspective (some would say relativism) that comes with the oldline's historical consciousness and responsiveness to societal needs.

It's interesting to me that American Catholics tend not to have the same sort of antagonistic relationship with science because the pope has an honest - to - goodness observatory with award - winning scientists doing real research; because at least right now, fundamentalism is not the overriding or abiding ideology in the Catholic Church — although there are a wing of Catholic fundamentalists in the U.S. right now that are influenced by their conservative evangelical Protestant brothers and sisters.

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.

Many of the adherents of Christian fundamentalism are themselves older people, but they and their leaders remain silent in the face of the chipping away at the Social Security system.

It is not at all clear that fundamentalism provides an answer to the need for personal well - being of large numbers of people over a long period of time.

Says Hoover, «By appearing on and being part of television (secular modernism at its most profane), the 700 Club transcends the lower - class origins of the evangelicalism and fundamentalism out of which it springs.»

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.

«Historically, we've had so much literature, from every side of the aisle, describing what it means to be a godly woman,» says Margaret Bendroth, adjunct professor at Andover Newton Theological Seminary and author of Fundamentalism and Gender.

These moving, and ostensibly sincere, words were pronounced by Richard Dawkins at the «Atheism is the new fundamentalism» debate staged by the U.K. - based organization Intelligence Squared in November 2009.

My guess is the U.S. average might end up higher than 12 % however as we seem to have quite a case of fundamentalism seeded here originally at Plymouth.

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.