Sentences with phrase «leaving fundamentalism»

You know you've been on Christian internet too long when you see a «Switch to Progressive» ad and think it's about leaving fundamentalism.

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

No crisis of faith upon leaving fundamentalism, as many of us have undergone — just a new line of work.

The psychology of religion studied adolescent conversions before it asked why the psychologist left fundamentalism and became a Quaker, an Episcopalian, or a Unitarian.

When we left fundamentalism nine years ago, I was overdue for a massive rebellion.

But I've known many people to leave fundamentalism only to make a string of bad choices that alienate them from God, themselves, and other people.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

This was not true for me, and it is not true for many of the young adults who leave college with questions about science, philosophy, politics, and religious pluralism that challenge the fundamentalism with which they were raised.

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

While we must leave it for Muslims to deal with the threat of fundamentalism to the faith of Islam, we can not avoid becoming involved when Muslim fundamentalism affects the relationships between the Islamic world and that of the Christian West.

It must be left to Muslims to refute Islamic fundamentalism by showing how Islam can best come to terms with the challenge of modernity.

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».

In fact, the categories of «left» and «right» simply may not help much in identifying the probable directions of fundamentalism.

Rather, fundamentalism tends to oppose pluralism, preferring authoritarian social structures, whether of the right or the left.

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 behind.

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

It is impossible to predict whether fundamentalism will be left - wing or right - wing.

So we are left with «unequivocal» Church teaching, explicitly based on texts which ought not to be cited since they are «unhelpful» and suggestive of «fundamentalism» (whatever that means), and with no real elaboration of why the Church teaches what it does on this important matter.

Today religious fundamentalism dominates the religious scene in the US and to a lesser extent elsewhere, leaving the main - line churches with depleted membership and waning influence.

A pioneer of talk radio, McIntyre and his faithful sidekick, «Amen Charlie,» became familiar voices to thousands of listeners across America as the «P.T. Barnum of American Fundamentalism»» blasting everything and everyone who wiggled even slightly to the left.

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.

The rest of the European Left never quite went the neo con distance that Blair et al took the Labour Party, but with a few honourable exceptions, the political surrender to free market fundamentalism drove many of the social democratic parties to run up the white flag.

While home schooling may have particular appeal to celebrities, over the last decade families of all kinds have embraced the practice for widely varying reasons: no longer is home schooling exclusive to Christian fundamentalism and the countercultural Left.

I agree completely that strict religious fundamentalism is not, in and of itself, generally part of the left.

What we are seeing is the emergence of «scientific fundamentalism» married quite often to extreme left and «back to medieval utopia» beliefs.