Sentences with phrase «toward fundamentalism»

The earlier evolution of evangelicalism out of fundamentalism and its current atavistic tendencies back toward fundamentalism represent a striking illustration of Ernst Troeltsch's notions of sect - to - church - to - sect development (The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches [Macmillan, 1931]-RRB-.

Many of them would say that the old guard of evangelical theology has itself been slipping down a disastrous slope for at least two decades (since the publication of Harold Lindsell's Battle for the Bible)-- back toward fundamentalism.

The latter characteristics are part of a trend toward fundamentalism.

Not exact matches

The danger in this is clear: early 20th century fundamentalism may have lost half its children because its theological world view was too small to take in their concerns and ground them biblically, thus forcing them toward less biblical foundations.

From requiring women to wear veils, to encouraging them to cater to their husbands» psychological and emotional needs, to barring them from ordination, the various fundamentalisms display much the same attitude toward women.

Barr writes generally to the point, and often discerningly, as he delineates the «religious basis» of fundamentalism; surveys its attitudes toward such diverse phenomena as politics, science, culture, Zionism and Roman Catholicism; catalogues such variations as Pentecostalism, Calvinist and Arminian conflicts, and millennialism; and probes its anti-ecumenical and anticritical ethos.