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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...
...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...
...Clemente. Without arguing with his old friend, Nixon suggested that all the nation's serious ills are curable without divine intervention. It was the President's first appearance before a campus audience since U.S. troops marched into Cambodia, but of course this audience was more fundamentalist than collegiate. Perhaps 500 protesters in the stands flourished signs that read THOU SHALT NOT KILL. But the vast majority of the congregation drowned out the antiwar chants with their cheers. It was Nixon country, and the guest speaker was obviously enjoying himself...
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...
...There are 4000 students at B.J.U. who are studying for a BA or Ph.D. in Religion or Fine Arts, the only two graduate programs the university offers. Founded in 1935 as a nondenominational fundamentalist college, Bob Jones University is "dedicated to teaching a Christian perspective in liberal arts education." Harrison said...