Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hell & brimstone fundamentalist, not to be confused with Softshell - or modern - Baptists, or the Six-Principle, Seventh-Day, Particular, Truthful, Lying, Free-Will, No Effort, Duck River or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...
...conservative-fundamentalist wing of all denominations "has, in effect, withdrawn from the cultural scene and taken its Christianity with it. . . . Thus, in a kind of cloistered isolation, conservatism has been running on the momentum of the Christian tradition, rather than on the perennial dynamics of the Christian faith." It has failed to recognize "the challenge to make Christianity intelligible and potent in the present historical situation...
...Fundamentalist ecstasy and hallelujah-shouting were a vital part of masterful, deep-voiced Alma White's faith. On it she built a sect called Pillar of Fire-with 4,000 followers, 61 churches, seven schools, ten periodicals and two broadcasting stations. Last week, as it must even to "the only woman bishop in the world," Death came to the Pillar of Fire's 84-year-old founder...
...this strange age it has been left to the American Unitarian Association to descend to a level of theological discussion never reached in our knowledge by the most obscurantist fundamentalist sect. . . ." Reinhold Niebuhr was counterattacking in force...
...Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi. Among their chief aims: return to veils for women and beards...