Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what should the American woman do with her new confidence and convictions? Marabel's answer, which her critics regard as deceptive and manipulative, combines the exhortations of the fundamentalist prayer meeting with the theatrical techniques of the Kama Sutra. Says she: "A Total Woman caters to her man's special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex or sports." For example: "Tonight, after the children are in bed, place a lighted candle on the floor and seduce him under the dining room table." A Total Woman might also try proposing sex in the hammock-even if there...
Henry first won fame in 1948, while teaching at California's Fuller Theological Seminary, when he wrote The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. It became the rallying point for the "New Evangelicals," who wanted to embrace orthodox doctrine while rejecting Fundamentalist excesses. From 1956 to 1968, Henry was Evangelicalism's foremost journalist and strategist, as the founding editor of Christianity Today. Since leaving the journal after a complex dispute with its board, Henry has become a freelance theologian based in Arlington, Va., and is currently the "lecturer at large" with World Vision...
...replied Fundamentalist Presbyterian Carl Mclntire. In his Christian Beacon, he offered an ingenious exegesis of the Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...
...preponderance of political and military power, the national habit of debating issues in a rather fundamentalist way, and the quick fluctuations of mood that characterize American life have made it difficult for American policy formulators and leaders of opinion to be patient with smaller and weaker nations and to appreciate their problems. Jawaharlal Nehru once said to Adlai Stevenson: "There is no difficulty in choosing between right and wrong if the question appears in that sense. It does not always appear clearly in that way. Between white and black there are many shades of gray." Perhaps noticing grays comes easier...
...surprising that talk of sin is what we Northerners are hearing from the South this election year; fundamentalist religion and absolutist values come naturally to a region whose dominant social sensibility is even now shaped by humiliation and betrayal...