Word: fundamentalistism
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...most U.S. churchmen, Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire, 58, is an irritating preacher. In radio broadcasts over 617 stations, he accuses the major U.S. churches of being "infiltrated by Communists," assails Episcopal Bishop James Pike and top Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake for distorting the Bible, opposes the civil rights movement and ecumenism. Writes Pennsylvania's Episcopal Bishop Robert DeWitt: Mclntire's "attacks upon the Protestant community, the Roman Catholic Church, the United Nations, and American foreign policy have established him as a negative and divisive force...
...fundamentalist Buddhists stuck to Buddha's narrow, escapist but arduous path and came to be known, to their distaste, as the Hinayana, or "lesser chariot." They prefer the name Theravada, or "doctrine of the elders." The "greater chariot," or Mahayana, branch attempted to enlarge and socialize the Middle Way. Their Buddha became less the example who must be emulated, more the savior who had mystically improved the lot of all mankind. By giving nearly equal weight to concern for others and to withdrawal for the self, Mahayana provided a platform for political engagement as Theravada could...
Poling, dubbed a "gentle fundamentalist," says he is "conservative though not reactionary in theological matters." During the 1960 presidential campaign, he publicly doubted that John Kennedy, if elected, could resist Vatican pressure on his official acts. Later, after Kennedy made an unequivocal statement for the separation of church and state, Poling declared himself satisfied, and the two men kept up a warm personal correspondence. In the past few years. he has taken up a crusade for family planning. The Christian Herald sometimes raps Catholic knuckles, but Poling employs several Roman Catholics and Jews in key jobs...
Tribble badly wants to transform Wake Forest into a truly academic university, a goal that the fundamentalist preachers who dominate the state convention bitterly oppose. They want the school to train future leaders of the church. "We're not in education for education's sake," protested the Rev. Tom Freeman...
Partisan View. The book is clearly partisan, and Strode, who is emeritus professor of English at the University of Alabama, frankly admits that he is presenting "the Southern viewpoint." He obviously believes that Davis was correct in his fundamentalist reading of the Constitution, that the South was justified in seceding, and that the Civil War was a close parallel to the American Revolution, in that it, too, was a war for independence. His references to slaves almost invariably mention their great loyalty and contentment. This, the third and last volume, bears the title Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero, and Strode writes...