Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that communists are especially desirable on a faculty. My faith, if there is any left to me, is in the undogmatic mind, the mind free to exam data without pro-conclusion and to aim for the conclusion implicit in the data itself. No party-liner--communist, catholic, bible-fundamentalist, shintoist, or what you will-is wholly free to observe this process, and to the extent that he is not free he is undesirable as an instructor in most courses, particularly in those courses where the nature of the material seeks to discover questions rather than mechanical answers...
Outside Looking In. On the right wing of U.S. Protestantism, the Fundamentalist American Council of Churches is the farthest tip. Most of its light and heat emanate from its dynamic founder, strapping Carl McIntire. Born 43 years ago in Ypsilanti, Mich., Carl McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...
With mock horror, Shaw recalls the dreadful results of Darwinism. Having once rejected the fundamentalist notion that "the universe is the work of a grotesque tribal idol described in the book of Numbers as God, who resolves to destroy the human race, but is placated by the smell of roast meat," the Darwinians decided that "the 39 articles were reduced to absurdity . . . Hell was abolished. Jehovah was exposed as an impostor whose real name was Jarvey . . . Talk of emptying the baby out with the bath! . . . Herod's massacre of the innocents was a joke in comparison...
Protestant fundamentalists are more conservative than the Catholics in their Biblical criticism. On Oct. 7, 38 fundamentalist editors will publish the Pilgrim Edition (Oxford University Press; $4.50). They use the King James translation and make flatly fundamentalist comments. Sample: "We can agree . . . with the suggested date of approximately 4000 B.C. for the creation...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...