Word: fundamentalistism
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Expectedly, there were some cool clerical appraisals of Graham's showmanship and "assembly-line approach" to salvation. Anglican Bishop John (Honest to God) Robinson paid tribute to Graham's personal integrity but dismissed his style as "the old-fashioned fundamentalist Gospel, pounding away at sin and bombarding us with texts. This is not evangelism." Summing up for the Anglican Church Times, the Rev. Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved...
...Piety based on error is indefensible," says Father John Lawrence McKenzie, and the error that he refers to is the fundamentalist misreading of Scripture. A witty and outspoken Jesuit scholar from Indiana, McKenzie considers it his right and duty to set his fellow churchmen straight about the Bible, which was not open to critical study by Roman Catholics until Pius XII encouraged it in his 1943 encyclical on Scriptural studies. In so doing, McKenzie, at 55, has become the nation's most controversial and quotable Catholic theologian-perhaps because there is all of a sudden so much...
...politician Romney has none of the critical detachment that was one of the chief graces of President Kennedy. In Romney's view, everything is clear and certain: others behave for bad ("political") motives or special interests, while he alone is working for the public interest. This fundamentalist self-confidence is another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous politician is not one who can fool others, but one who can fool himself as well...
Billy Graham's integrated crusade in Greenville, S.C., last week drew so many people to the huge Textile Hall that he had to go on double sessions. But for Billy, success was touched with sadness. Boycotting the crusade were the 3,800 intensely religious students and faculty of fundamentalist Bob Jones University, where Graham studied and "got my evangelism...
...cause of Jesus Christ than any living man." What angered Jones particularly was that Graham's crusade sent people making decisions for Christ "back to unbelieving churches, to false teachers, and Unitarians"-that is, to the churches of their own choice-instead of guiding them exclusively into fundamentalist churches, where they "can be fed the word of God." Worse yet to the Joneses, who are dedicated to the inerrancy of the Bible and total segregation in their school, Graham betrayed Scripture by integrating his rallies beginning in 1950, and by accepting support from "liberals," and "modernists...