Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Reverend and Right Honourable Archbishop was picketed by an orderly, middle-aged fundamentalist group that opposed his active support of the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement...
...CONSERVATIVE-AMERICAN-CHRISTIAN, were some 50 delegates of the Prohibition Party. When a speaker really got warmed up, the delegates, with a rustling of shawls, erupted in lusty choruses of "Amen!" For pep songs, they turned to the New Day Temperance Songs pamphlet. For hardhitting oratory, they had Michigan Fundamentalist Charles Ewing, who deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated Watusi," in which "grey-haired mothers and grandmothers have shortened their skirts, exposed their bones, lit up their cigarettes, put on their war paint and started on a gin blitz for freedom with their bouffant bobs aflappin...
Although no fundamentalist, Cosby preaches a Scripture-centered faith, and his dramatic sermons are rooted in the Southern evangelistic tradition. Unconcerned that his church has few members, he believes that the "costly grace" of Christian commitment "can be more readily sustained among a small group than in a large impersonal setting." Cosby also rejects activism for its own sake. "Just getting involved," he says, "is often a form of escape." The true Christian ministry, he believes, must be an "inward and outward" journey-meaning both spiritual pilgrimage toward God and dedication to the service of humanity for Christ...
...interview Burack says very little that isn't in the Handbook. And he doesn't have to. "It's all in the book," he says, waving around the little blue paperback like a fundamentalist minister displaying his Bible. The bulk of the book is an 85-page series of lists of basic prescription drugs--what they do and how much they cost--with comparative prices of brand name drugs and their generic equivalents...
Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator...