Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even when judged by the sedate standards of the resort town of Cape May, on the southern tip of New Jersey, the 3,000 conventioners were an extraordinary crew. The delegates to the Seventh World Congress of the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches did not drink, nor did they smoke; they spent most of their time browsing through Scriptures and savoring the special satisfactions of zealous dissent...
Mclntire began his crusade in 1936, when he broke with his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., charging that its foreign mission board was "discriminating against conservative missionaries" who preached the virgin birth and other fundamentalist doctrines. That same year Mclntire founded a splinter congregation, the Bible Presbyterian Church, headquartered in Collingswood, N.J. In 1948 he organized the I.C.C.C. as a counterthrust to the newly founded World Council, which he branded "apostate" and an "ecumenical monster...
Sober Guests. The I.C.C.C. has proved as durable as its founder. Its membership now includes some 140 denominations in 73 countries and colonies from Bolivia to Lebanon. All are relatively small, fundamentalist groups that have also broken with mainstream Protestant churches on the issue of membership in the World Council. The biggest U.S. member is the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, which has 1,300 congregations and 180,000 worshipers. Mclntire spreads his gospel through a weekly paper, the Christian Beacon (circ. 120,000), and a Monday-Friday radio program broadcast over 635 stations. Mclntire and his co-crusaders...
...spectaculars as Lima's festival honoring Our Lord of the Miracles, but grandmothers and schoolchildren are often about the only worshipers at Sunday Mass in the ancient, silent churches. In Brazil, perhaps 25 million people are devotees of a voodoo cult called macumba. Across the continent, the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects constitute the fastest-growing faith...
...days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to appear at the edge of a 40-acre estate on the outskirts of Wheaton, Ill. They would kneel briefly in prayer and then scurry nervously away. Thirty years ago, it was an act that took courage: the estate had become headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, a mysterious non-Christian movement often suspected of being more occult than cult. Praying for the souls of the benighted Theosophists...