Word: fundamentalistism
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...later testified, "in the midst of my success I saw the futility of my life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher for the fundamentalist Church of the Nazarene. In California he met and married a Hollywood starlet named Constance Orozco...
...does not mean "a bullying spirit, much less rudeness." It consists rather of "a naive and energetic thrust forward from an idea sincerely conceived. From Luther's day onward, simplicity of soul and freedom of the spirit were always characteristic of the churches of the Reform." Liberal or fundamentalist, the Protestant derives an "enthusiastic assuredness" from his "unconcern for tradition." The virtue of this attitude is the tolerance of diversity. But this tolerance is paradoxical. The Protestant "is tolerant of anything but intolerance, and the insistence that the Christian faith must be doctrinally one is for him intolerance...
...Israel, Jordan and Hungary) to 2,836 from the U.S. Rio had never seen such a cosmopolitan crowd; bare-shouldered Ghanaians and batik-clad Indonesians drew stares, while the eight delegates from the Soviet Union drew something more-a predictable blast from the Rev. Carl Mclntire. head of the Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, who accused the Baptists of providing a platform for Communist propaganda. Retorted Richmond's Theodore Floyd Adams, outgoing president of the Baptist Alliance: "The Russian delegates are above suspicion. They have suffered greatly for their faith...
...tight-shut fundamentalist mind, there was nothing much Catholicism could say. In arguing with the liberals, says Father Baum, "we used to begin with the Bible regarded simply as an historical record, trying to show that Jesus, the man Jesus, claimed to be of divine origin and that He proved His claims by prophecy and miracles. Then we showed that he founded a Church, a community of believers on the rock of the apostles, endowed with certain notes or visible properties. The church with these properties can still be found today: it is the Catholic Church...
Died. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, 93, for 68 years a Presbyterian minister and church leader, who, during a doctrinal fight of the 1920s, served as a mediator between his own fundamentalist wing and the opposing liberal wing of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., in 1925 as moderator of the general assembly staved off a schism in the church; of heart disease; in Princeton...