Word: fundamentalistism
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...members who are uncertain of answers to "loyalty questions." Facts Forum recommends the word of such authorities as the Rev. Dr. Carl McIntire, President of the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches, who has accused the National Council of Churches, which embraces most Protestant denominations, of pro-Communism. He has also called the U.S. Roman Catholic Church a "spy system . . . committed to a foreign power...
...proud indigenes of Africa's northwest corner who in the 8th century were engulfed (but not permanently subdued) by the Islamic invaders from Arabia. The Berbers adopted the Moslem religion, but their practices were eccentric-heterodox in some ways (e.g., they eat wild boar's flesh), rigidly fundamentalist in others. Unlike the urban Arabs in Morocco, the rural Berbers have remained steadfastly pro-French...
...White House desk, President Eisenhower last week signed a Declaration of Freedom drawn up by the fundamentalist National Association of Evangelicals and based on "seven divine freedoms" found in the 23rd Psalm. The seven...
...distinctive thing about Pastor Wimbish's sermons and those of past Calvary pastors is that they are stoutly fundamentalist in a city generally associated with religious liberalism. The 107-year-old church is one of the oldest Baptist congregations in New York (present memberbership: 1,500). But Calvary members regard most Northern Baptists as modernists, and keep up strong ties with the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1931, two years after Evangelist Straton's death, Calvary moved to a new church building on the ground floor of a $2,500,000 17-story building on Manhattan's busy...
...lives in an area where Christian belief is strong and fundamental. Wright himself prefers a more intellectual approach toward religion, and says so. Recently, in a speech to the El Paso Bar Association, he declared that reason is as good a guide to religion as faith is. He denounced fundamentalist camp meetings, popular in West Texas, as "emotional whingdings that provide a vacation from thinking." Added Episcopalian Wright, attacking belief in Biblical accounts such as that of Jonah and the whale: "Who does believe those stories that has any mind...