Sentences with phrase «into fundamentalism»

«People have bought into Fundamentalism, with the accent not on the fun, so their universe can be explained and outlined to them.

The contrasting notion, the notion that the Bible is sincere, was born in some long, wet chilly Northern European Protestant winter and unhappily exported to America, where it devolved into fundamentalism.

A heyschast shift in evangelicalism, into the depths of spiritual silence instead of out into imagined political glory, would be less a retreat back into Fundamentalism than a maturation of the movement in an hour of exceptional need.

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.

A loose parallel might helpfully be drawn between the magazine's changes and the development of revivalism into fundamentalism, prior to fundamentalism's retrenchment in the social arena following the debacle of the Scopes trial and the repeal of Prohibition.

Nor will it panic into fundamentalism.

Without the Magisterium any attempt to interpret the scriptures inevitably falls into fundamentalism or liberalism.

Not exact matches

I think more effort and resources would be more effectively and more critically placed into keeping our government secular, keeping Creationism out of the science class, and religious fundamentalism away from interfering with women's reproductive choices — just to name a few priorities.

i am learning that fundamentalism is quite a broad church... but something i notice in common with many fundamentalists is a lack of willingness to enter into conversation with other viewpoints and experiences.

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.

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.

It seems as if science has backed christian fundamentalism into a corner and the christians aren't quite sure how to react about it.

Beyond affecting hundreds of thousands of young people directly, Youth for Christ played a crucial role in helping the less separatist segment of fundamentalism reintegrate into mainstream American life.

The fear inherent within modernity, the anxiety that the ideological Other calls my worldview into question, is one explanation for rise of fundamentalism in the modern era.

We were not far into the 21st century when fundamentalism gave us a wake - up call.

The word Fundamentalism came into vogue in 1920 in relation to the Christian group who earlier published a set of twelve booklets under the title, Fundamentals.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

«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.

Its actions are having the opposite effect because -LSB-...] its lack of identity [and relativism] transforms Europe into terrain for conquest -LSB-... by a] terrorism and fundamentalism [which] attack the core values of our civilisation.»

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

Furthermore, if the evidence from some branches of Orthodox Judaism and of Black Islam in America is taken into account, it may be that the simple clarities of fundamentalism give persecuted people whose lives are in disarray the clean - edged structures by which discipline and order can be imposed on chaos from within.

Occasionally Barr mentions a scholar who breaks out of fundamentalism into a genuinely critical stance (though usually extremely conservative)-- but only to call into question the honesty of such shifts without frank recognition of the break and even apology to critics whose work had been dismissed and motives impugned.

It would probably still violate his sensitivity with regard to his third defining point of fundamentalism by claiming — as have all reforming movements with a vision for the renewal of the church — to have some insight into a «higher Christian life» than that grasped by many church members.

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:

Joining the ranks of Christian fundamentalism means also submitting one's own story to the biblical lens; conversion is really conversion into a particular narrative tradition.

Rampant nationalism, when supported by fundamentalism, all too quickly turns into the fanaticism that leads to violence, terrorism and war.

Fundamentalism has brought the term «Christian» into disrepute by denying the catholicity or universality of Christianity and narrowing it down to a rigid sectarianism.

Fundamentalism is the modern phenomenon by which people, perhaps afraid of the uncertainties of the future, and certainly distrustful of the modern world, have raised their Holy Scripture into a tangible idol.

Instead of bringing spiritual freedom and the realisation of a spiritual goal, as all sound religion should, fundamentalism imprisons people into such a rigid system of belief that they find it difficult to free themselves.

In both these emphases fundamentalism, despite its much reading of the Bible, betrays a profound ignorance of the Bible, including the way in which it was written and came into existence.

Secondly, how to recognize the religious dimension of public life in a society of many religions and secular ideologies without allowing society to fall into the dangers of religious fundamentalism and communalism?

When science begins to believe it knows everything it degrades into scientism, an absolutist belief no different from the religious fundamentalism that its adherents decry.

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.

It wasn't the only message being disseminated, of course: Merely suggesting abstinence as a public health measure was viewed by some as an irresponsible intrusion of religious fundamentalism into politics.

(Might the move of many Hispanics into Pentecostalism, fundamentalism and sometimes evangelicalism represent that rare thing in American religion, the move of a cohort into a new camp?

has retreated from the onslaught of positivist thinking into the enclave of personal conviction or has taken the root of unreasoning fundamentalism.

The mentality of fundamentalism comes into being whenever a believer is unwilling to trace the effects of original sin in his own life.

In reaction to the violence and distemper we see displayed in so - called fundamentalism (of whatever religious brand), many people are touting a kind of uncritical pluralism that would amalgamate divergent faith traditions into one homogenized whole.

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.

They mostly detest the Liberal Democrats, and they have turned themselves into a single issue cabal with their fundamentalism over the EU.

An example for comparison might be what happened to the Ottoman empire which after embracing science and rising to world dominance slipped into a decline fueled by religious fundamentalism where the ideas of popular religious individuals reigned supreme over the importance of scientific fact.

Where I live, in the Bay Area, you're as likely to run into New Age superstition as Christian fundamentalism.

The coverage of the resulting Scopes «monkey trial» in 1925 turned the American public against religious fundamentalism for a generation, and the persistent campaigns against evolution drove most scientists into the Republican Party.

In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.

It's a shame that the western world, well, especially the US, has been carefully brainwashed into thinking of anyone who teaches something that may run counter to «common sense» rightwing fundamentalism as elitist and amoral.

Fortunately, Bush's fundamentalism is out of step with mainstream opinion in the USA, and that opinion is likely to be translated into serious domestic action to reduce emissions.