Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speeches. Graham, like Goldwater is often criticized for presenting simple answers to complex problems. The words of each man, read in cold print, seem fantastically foolish to some people. Yet when he presents his views in person, each man wins the approval of almost any audience. Graham's semi-fundamentalist views win applause at Rindge Tech just as Goldwater's discourses on poverty receive standing ovations from his listeners...
Stupid Samson. No fundamentalist, Staack constantly relates archaeological findings to Scriptural passages, he believes that the divine revelation coming to man in the Bible is expressed within the limitations of a historical frame work. Thus he violently opposes the "glorification" of Biblical figures that commonly takes place in Sunday school teaching. "Look at the use God makes of humans," he says. "Moses was hotheaded, but God loved him and used him. Stupid Samson was found useful; so was cruel Joshua. Throughout the Scriptures, real people are used by God -not people who have been placed on an artificially high level...
Nobody had heard of Billy Graham either. He was a Baptist preacher from North Carolina, had recently flopped at a revival meeting in Altoona, Pa. Brought to Los Angeles by a group of fundamentalist ministers to conduct an evangelistic mission, he ran into discouraging difficulties. His sponsors had trouble raising the $20,000 budget; the owner of the selected tent site refused to rent it for the crusade; the fire commissioner complained that the circus-style tent was a public hazard...
Without question, Wisconsin is now the most rigidly fundamentalist of all Lutheran groups. All pastors must teach that the Bible cannot err even in details, that God created the world in six 24-hour days, that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch. Wisconsin churches hardly ever join with other Christian groups in sponsoring civic projects. But "we aren't ogres," says Pastor James Schaefer of Milwaukee's Atonement Church. "We enjoy a martini once in a while, and some of us even say 'dammit' from time to time...
...Augsburg Confession of 1530; the Church of England's 39 Articles, far from being an authorized confession of the faith, are mentally rejected in whole or part by nearly every Anglican cleric who "assents" to them when he assumes church office. The Anglican faith encompasses Evangelical missionaries as fundamentalist as any Southern Baptist and such subtle, sophisticated minds as San Francisco's Bishop James A. Pike, who questions the virgin birth and speaks of "demythologizing" the Resurrection...