Word: fundamentalistism
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...awaiting a Dec. 1 deadline for their departure from the country. And deadline is the appropriate word: an ultimatum issued by Muslim extremists declares that "anyone staying longer is responsible for his own sudden death."As many as 3,000 people have been killed by government forces and Islamic fundamentalists since January 1992, when the government canceled elections because fundamentalist candidates appeared certain...
...turned 75 this week, an occasion for some reckoning of a life and career full of blessings and contradictions. Everyone has a preferred ; description. George Bush called him "America's pastor." Harry Truman called him a "counterfeit" and publicity seeker. Pat Boone considers him "the greatest person since Jesus." Fundamentalist leader Bob Jones III says Graham "has done more harm to the cause of Christ than any other living man." Biographer William Martin calls him "an icon not just of American Christianity but of America itself...
...Biblical purity, however, did not protect him from conservative attacks. Over the years, strict Fundamentalists came to see Graham as a traitor for his willingness to work with everyone -- Catholics, Anglicans, even liberal modernists -- to bring the unchurched into the tent. "Fundamentalist is a grand and wonderful word," Graham says now, "but it got off track and into so many extreme positions." Their hostility pained him far more than the sneers of liberals. "I felt," Graham admits, "like my own brothers had turned against...
...recent years, there has come a curious reversal. Fundamentalist leaders who once shunned the political realm began to move forcefully into it, bearing a moral agenda for family values and school prayer, against abortion and gay rights. And Graham, in a sense, returned to the pure power of the pulpit, preaching as forcefully as ever of the need for moral renewal but without allying himself with the political activism of the religious right. "I can identify with them on theology, probably, in many areas," he says, "but in the political emphases they have, I don't, because...
Billy Graham expresses beliefs that remain firmly based upon the Bible, yet ^ often sound moderate in a world of Fundamentalist fire. He spoke about his creed with 's Richard N. Ostling...