Sentences with phrase «understand fundamentalism»

The result is a remarkable and often brilliant blend of the insider's penetration and the outsider's critique that demands the attention of all who would understand fundamentalism, whether as adherents or as observers.

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But to understand the rise of Muslim fundamentalism we must go as far back as the 18th century, when Muhammad al - Wahhab founded the Wahhabi movement in Arabia.

It can not be stressed too strongly, then, that if we wish to make any headway in our encounter with fundamentalism, we must make a genuine attempt to understand and listen to its protest.

I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy, theology, all of which are pertinent to the religious significance of Darwinism.3 What many seem not to understand is that the crux of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two kinds of theism and two kinds of evolutionism.

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.

Therefore, if people want to understand the world in which they live, they may find it necessary to understand something about fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.

Harding's most original contribution to our understanding of fundamentalism is her analysis of the process of generativity.

Harding makes a compelling case for generativity as the key to understanding Falwell's — and fundamentalism's — continuing appeal.

A congregation serving in a worldly context would not, of course, be primarily interested in an understanding of mission as the conversion of peoples to either doctrinal or morphological fundamentalism.

Above all, Christian fundamentalism fails to understand how and why the new secular humanism has evolved out of Christendom in much the same way as Christianity evolved out of Judaism.