Not exact matches
But even the more conservative wings of the Wesleyan
tradition (which because of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation of Christian
faith, have often felt some affinity with the
fundamentalist wing of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home in the circles of either modem fundamentalism or more recently in neo-evangelicalism.
Thompson grew up in a
fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian
tradition of his family, culminating in a crisis of
faith.
The Editor in the Preface says that the Tract «polemises against a form of narrow sectarian Secularism which refuses to be sensitive to
tradition and
faith» and argues that Secularism needs to be rethought taking religious
faith seriously, that «only then can Secularism reclaim the ideological space which
Fundamentalists are threatening to take over, only then can Secularists capture the minds of the people» (p.vi).
Fundamentalists treat Holy Scripture as the starting point of their
faith tradition when in fact it is the product: it gathered its authority only after the
tradition had started.
Each
fundamentalist movement has emerged independently and is a law unto itself, sometimes differing from (or in violent opposition to) other
fundamentalist movements within a single
faith tradition.