Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Clauser, who teaches at Barrington College, regards "born again" as a catch-all phrase, almost a cliche in Fundamentalist church circles, that can result in a cliched experience because the words lose their meaning...
...like or was not useful. His view of himself and the world has been shaped in large part by a distrust of big money, power and government, the dedication to the heroic mythology of the Confederacy and its gentle traditions that were so often belied by violent reality, the fundamentalist religion, the romantic belief in the redeeming qualities of rural life, and the sense of the region's old isolation, poverty, backwardness and-above all-its preoccupation with race. He also believes the South has been misunderstood. In a speech at Emory University while he was Governor, Carter said...
Carter's courting of the Jewish vote should bring a cry for equal time from the Catholics of America-his fundamentalist, evangelical "born again" Christianity is as foreign to us as it is to the Jews...
...special issues that seem to concern Jews is Carter's evangelical Southern Baptist faith (see RELIGION). In a recent letter to Reform Jewish leaders across the nation, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President of the American Union of Hebrew Congregations, recalled that "historically, anti-Semitism had its roots in fundamentalist religion." But he immediately added that it "is unjust and paradoxical for religious Jews to look askance at a man because he is deeply religious...
...terms evangelical and fundamentalist are sometimes used interchangeably, but they have different connotations. Evangelicalism derives from Martin Luther's emphasis on the gospels and salvation through faith. Fundamentalism as a movement emerged shortly after 1900 and put renewed stress on miraculous aspects of the life of Christ. The groups may overlap since both fundamentalists and evangelicals emphasize the authority of the Bible rather than the church, but fundamentalists tend to be more conservative, both theologically and politically...