Word: fundamentalistism
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Faith & Politics. Among American evangelists, Billy Graham earned national fame for the sincerity of his gripping, Bible-centered oratory, and Tulsa's Oral Roberts for his emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics. Age 37, he stands a shade under six feet, but weighs almost 275 Ibs., in rolls of fat that start at his jowls and balloon into an elephant-sized waistline. Except when he is drumming up donations, Billy James Hargis is deadly serious onstage-but he nonetheless lays the serious...
Some of these aversions they share with other strongly fundamentalist and austere Protestant groups. What sets the Seventh-day Adventists strikingly apart from their fellow Protestants is two major points of doctrine. One is that the Adventists honor Saturday as the Sabbath, the Biblical seventh day. The other is the belief that the second coming of Christ is premillennial and imminent: "The time is not known but near...
...First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Va., a rundown, impoverished church with a congregation of 500. Merriam doubled the church's property, added 100 parishioners to the congregation, put on an impressive range of new youth activities-and began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although fundamentalist in his theology, he was a political liberal who spoke out in the pulpit against Virginia's racial segregation. His orations were notable for their scholarship-and for their shock value. Once he was photographed at a church bazaar sitting backwards on a donkey and wearing a Japanese lantern...
...fundamentalist leader estimates that around Chicago there may now be as many as 1,000 "storefronts"-as preachers persist in calling them, although in the suburbs they are more often housed in old churches bought from mainstream denominations, or in simple (and cheap) concrete-block structures. Last month the Rev. Lyle Schaller, director of the Regional Church Planning Office in northeastern Ohio (which represents twelve Protestant denominations), reported in The Lutheran magazine on a survey of new church construction near Cleveland. In the suburban triangle formed by Cleveland, Lorain and Elyria, no fewer than eleven of the 15 new congregations...
...storefront congregations are made up of white migrants from rural areas, who moved first to the city in search of factory jobs, and then to the suburbs after learning that they could buy a house on terms there for less than they paid for tenement rents. But some fundamentalist ministers claim that their young congregations include doctors, bankers and other professional men who have become dissatisfied with traditional Protestantism. "All the people have to be reached,'' says James Freeman, pastor of the Church of God. Mountain Assembly, in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood. "We have college people, high...