Sentences with phrase «of fundamentalism»

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.

Gilles Kepel, after studying the rise of fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity and Judaism, particularly from the 1970s onward, warned of its dangers in his book The Revenge of God.

It appears that the kind of fundamentalism in which the Christian believer turned biblical debunker was raised did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in college.

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.

I believe this is the great danger of fundamentalism, regardless of its religious origins.

To find a way out of fundamentalism, each writer had to contend with the consequences of breaking the community's rules.

When I became free indeed, I put the ways of fundamentalism behind me.

In this book I have tried to sketch the rise, nature and extent of the modern phenomenon of fundamentalism and to deal with it as sympathetically as possible.

nakedpastor said: 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.

That is a feature of fundamentalism everywhere, both Christian and Muslim.

In addition to enhancing our understanding of fundamentalism in the U.S., Fundamentalisms Observed, edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (University of Chicago Press, 872 pp., $ 40.00), demonstrates the extent to which fundamentalism is a worldwide phenomenon.

And the spread of fundamentalism throughout the Islamic world is well known.

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.

For example, while the editors had often lamented the growth of fundamentalism, in the late teens their attacks became more vociferous.

The good news is that Jesus has survived the embarrassing things that we Christians have done in His name, as found in the dark side of the history of fundamentalism, the messiness of the religious Right, and even more recently, in folks who burn the Koran and hold signs that say «God Hates Fags,» all in the name of Christianity.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about an experience he had in seminary where the shackles of fundamentalism fell from his mind.

The fear of being left with nothing leaves many people desperately afraid to question anything, which might be a good definition of fundamentalism.

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

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

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.

Bob Jones University is the fortress of fundamentalism and the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches, a church organization 8 million members strong.

The success of fundamentalism is due also to the groups» ability to amass vast resources.

From the origins of Pentecostalism in tiny shacks by the side of the road, where the celebrants regularly speak in tongues and the Bible is the literal roadmap of faith, to the glass cathedrals of Orange County, with their drive - in customers and hi - tech TV studios, Morgan casts an unbiased eye at a crucial, if relatively unexamined, phenomenon: the role of fundamentalism in the creation of California and, thereby, contemporary America.

in the sense of Christians feeling at war with aspects of the culture.16 However, as my analysis of fundamentalism suggests.

«Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.»

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.

For Niebuhr's views of fundamentalism see his «Fundamentalism», Encyclopedia of Social Science, vol.

Carl Henry wrote: The code of Fundamentalism emphasizes external adherence to a few arbitrary customs and external abstinence from a few arbitrarily prohibited things.

The code of Fundamentalism emphasizes external adherence to a few arbitrary customs and external abstinence from a few arbitrarily prohibited things.

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

Webster argues against Kavanagh's prioritization of liturgy, saying that the chief evil of fundamentalism is not, contra Kavanagh, that «scripture has been severed from its liturgical context, but that it has been severed from its Trinitarian context.»

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I've been thinking lately that the hardest part of fundamentalism for me to leave behind is the part that equates rightness with righteousness, the part that makes «winning» the goal.

Check this out... here is the view of fundamentalism from those who have been through it, and have rejected it.

Elizabeth Esther is a master storyteller who describes her journey out of fundamentalism with a powerful mix of tenderness and guts.

He joined in a then - emerging movement called New Evangelicalism, that abandoned the narrowness of fundamentalism to engage broader society.

There is an atheistic version of fundamentalism, too, yanno!

I don't find the abusive nature of Fundamentalism in religion or politics life affirming.

We can see the importance of this vision in Carl Henry's critique of fundamentalism in the late 1940s.

For the child of fundamentalism whose self - loathing and guilt keep her from experiencing God's peace, the bad news is that God is angered by sin; the good news is that her sins were atoned for on the cross.

I created this chart today to help me get a better grasp on the essentials of fundamentalism.

It is just the intensity of fundamentalism that varies.

One mark of fundamentalism and neo-fundamentalism is going beyond belief in and proclamation of the incarnation to insistence on a certain theory of how it worked as essential to the incarnation and deity of Jesus Christ.»

Islam lends itself to fundamentalism even more than does Christianity, for the strength of fundamentalism lies, as we have seen, in its appeal to Holy Scripture.

As of now, «Most Fundamentalists would not accept the Charismatic Movement as a legitimate representation of Fundamentalism.»