Sentences with phrase «fundamentalism on»

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.

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.

In December 1979 the Ayatollah Khomeini was imposing his own brand of medieval Islamic fundamentalism on the most westernized of Mideast countries.

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:

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.

To «go soft» on hyper - fundamentalism on one hand or evangelicalism on the other is to remove from prospective converts the reasons to join this brand of fundamentalist movement.

Paul may be a «religious fundamentalist» but he wouldn't have the state impose his fundamentalism on anyone else.

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.

Not exact matches

According to a blog post on the association's website, «The Learning Channel's new show All - American Muslim is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present - day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law.»

Your religious fundamentalism is theistic and based solely on your tiny fraction of a belief in the possibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

My initial reaction was that New Atheism has come full - circle and descended into the sort of self - parody seen on the fringes of Christian fundamentalism.

Metropolitan John voiced his critique of Orthodox fundamentalism in no uncertain terms; he also repeatedly encouraged the scholars to publish their reflections on the subject of the upcoming pan-Orthodox Council.

Black and white starkly contrasting views on nearly every subject is the game of legalistic fundamentalism.

On the «right» end of the spectrum is the fundamentalism of those who insist that reliable knowledge can only be found in an ultraliteral interpretation of the Bible, and that alternate ways of knowing must be completely subordinated to this way of reading the Bible.

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.

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

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that you fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand.

After attending the conference I decided that the obsession with individual rights — the right to make money or to write, say or do what I please — should be exposed for what it is: a form of fundamentalism that accepts one worldview as absolute and rejects all others as encroachments on the true faith.

Fundamentalism, in many ways, used to rely solely on the inherent truth of its system as the source of its certainty.

Now, fundamentalism, although it still depends on the...

Coming out of extreme fundamentalism, I thought it was just the churches to which I'd been exposed early on.

We touched on this a little bit Friday, when several of you encouraged me to focus less attention on deconstructing fundamentalism and more attention on moving forward in the reconstruction process — good suggestions for bringing more life and focus to the blog.

Tariq Ali, a Pakistani writer and film - maker now living in London, was already writing a book on Islamic fundamentalism before September 11.

On some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal ProtestantOn some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal Protestanton issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal Protestants.

Historic fundamentalists would find them compromising, adapting, walking center lines and warning on one of the two main marks — the other being biblical inerrancy — of fundamentalism.

The term fundamentalism evolved from there, and as we all know, has taken on an extremely negative connotation.

I find myself spending a lot of time picking apart fundamentalism, when I ought to be focusing on building bridges and seeking common ground..

As Christian fundamentalism focuses its attention on the so - called Holy Land, so also does the Islamic world, where it has served to strengthen and spread Islamic fundamentalism.

If this faction mutes the premillennial debate, it has not yielded so readily on another movement that like evangelicalism and fundamentalism could easily be called «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century» — Pentecostalism.

American Bishop John Spong has taken on his own Anglican communion almost single - handedly, writing such books as Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism.

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.

It is this which lies behind the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and manifests the clash of fundamentalisms par excellence.

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.

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

In the same issue that Reno reappraised Michael Novak's classic defense of capitalism («The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism,» October), he also took Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa to task for the «shrill, exaggerated, Manichean, and manipulative tone» of their essay on «Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism.»

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.

The essence of fundamentalism is in that it views complexities simplistically in mere polarities of truth - falsehood, good - bad, God - devil, we - they, heaven - hell and so on.

when I first started reading up on how extreme Christian fundamentalism has become in the last 30 yrs (since I left Evangelicalism), I was stunned to find that there is a whole movement afoot to keep children, especially girls, from attending college — yes, even BJU — for fear of them being «indoctrinated» with «liberal ideas».

He (and others) posit that the Muslim world turned it's back on science with the advent of fundamentalism around the 12th century — in the form of Al - Ghazali who (according to wikipedia) embraced a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present Will of God.

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

The elite domination, continuing misery of the poor, rise of religious fundamentalism, impact of new economic policies, ecological crisis, and so on.

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

Fundamentalism is not one movement but a collection of movements, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and so on.

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.

In this Seminar on the future of the inter-religious dialogue, it is proper that we start with the specific context of the present crisis of Indian Secularism and its relation to religious fundamentalism.

The danger of fundamentalism (I. e., theology having no real connection with the historical data) on the one hand, is met by the danger of humanism (I. e., theology having no transcendent norm) on the other.

V.M. Tarkunde, himself a Radical Humanist, in his JPMemorial Lecture on «Communalism and Human Rights» (PUCL Bulletin June 93), clearly distinguishes Fundamentalism from Communalism.

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.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

Despite the peculiarities of modern American Christian fundamentalism, there are surely movements among the world's other religions that have roughly comparable contours, and it may be useful to reflect briefly on these similarities and contrasts in a broad and hypothetical way.