Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 23) includes preachers of hellfire and promoters of love, fundamentalist Christians, mainstream Protestants, and even some Roman Catholics. Most, however, at least share a common belief in the basic tenets of Christianity: the triune nature of God, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Gospels as the cornerstone of faith. But some so-called Jesus freaks really subscribe to exotic creeds all their own that to orthodox Christians are close to what used to be called heresy. And not only to traditional churchmen: even many inside the movement look suspiciously on these fellow travelers with Jesus...
...Gang Rape. The inerrancy doctrine is at the heart of the present strife. Preus and many other conservatives take the fundamentalist view, which holds that such biblical passages as the Adam and Eve account and even Jonah's journey inside the whale are historically true. For most moderates, however, inerrancy means rather that major doctrines, such as original sin, are divinely inspired truth, while specific stories like that of Adam and Eve or Jonah could be just illustrations of a larger truth...
...rooms just for playing jazz. And that is as nothing compared to the astonishing neglect accorded jazz in black colleges. Major black schools like Fisk, Tuskegee and Wilberforce still do not condone it. Perhaps, suggests Saxophonist John Handy, an instructor at San Francisco State, that is because many black fundamentalist churches have stigmatized jazz as evil and sinful...
...fundamentalist," Klein said. "When the level of competition is exceptional, I feel the ultimate victor depends on conditioning. The body will respond beyond anyone's belief of its capabilities if the desire is there...
...lifted with the boom. Major league sports teams have come to play in a new stadium; a $13 million cultural palace houses a theater company, an art museum and symphony orchestra. It is the sophisticated home of eager businessmen and dropped-out young people, Hari Krishna chanters and fundamentalist ranters, Lester Maddox and Ralph David Abernathy, braless Women's Libbers and aging United Daughters of the Confederacy...