Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence Darrow, the noted civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee did not repeal the law until...
Visions and Demons. Such prohibitions rarely extend to other aspects of the youth culture, which often lends itself remarkably well to the fundamentalist lifestyle. Jesus has always been prominent in hippie mythology, and the ideal of the shared life draws much of its inspiration from the Bible. Edward Plowman also observes that "in the drug scene, many kids develop a spiritual awareness that the alcohol culture, for example, doesn't have. They believe in a spiritual reality. They've seen visions and demons. Thus a conservative Christianity, which hasn't mythed away God and angels, appeals...
Though most street Christians share such a fundamentalist streak, no two houses or communes are exactly alike. On Sunset Strip, for instance, Evangelist Tony Alamo, a onetime record promoter, preaches hellfire and damnation to anyone who refuses to live by the Gospel. He and his wife Susan guard their flocks rigidly at Christian Foundation, their church and commune...
...words of outgoing SBC President W.A. Criswell, "termites" are gnawing at the group's fundamentalist foundations. Recent years have seen a growing movement away from the old Bible-thumping toward a more liberal faith-particularly among some of the SBC's seminary teachers and publications editors. The liberals have taken a progressive line not only on such issues as race and ecumenism, but above all on biblical interpretation, finally joining scholars of other denominations in doubting that the text was inspired word-for-word by God and is thereby infallible. Last year Criswell, pastor...
There they go, brandishing Bible verses, preaching of doomsday, urging man to repent. A new fundamentalist sect? No, a small but growing band of church scholars on an "eco-trip"-seeking theological underpinning for the ecology crusade...