Word: fundamentalistism
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...April 20, the Rev. J. J. Ivie, 57, a traveling Ozark evangelist of the fundamentalist Assembly of God Church, went home to his cottage in Cherryville, Mo. and quietly told his wife that he was going on a religious fast. In 27 years as a preacher in the foothills, he had come to feel an increasing depression about human sinfulness, and a sense of personal failure in his efforts to lead his fellow men to repentance...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...
...appreciated very much your reporting of "Protesting Protestants," [but] if you are going to refer to us as a "fundamentalist organization," then by all rights you should refer to the National Council [of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.] as a liberal or modernist organization. I have been ministering here in Collingswood 18 years, and we regret your slur upon the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood ... I am a minister in good and regular standing in this church. To refer to me as "a deposed minister" is contrary to the facts and the records . . . CARL MCINTIRE Bible Presbyterian Church...
...thousand, banner-waving church members gathered in Washington last week to put heat to the controversy about whether the U.S. should send an ambassador to the Vatican. They were on a "pilgrimage" sponsored by the American Council of Christian Churches,* a clamorous, fundamentalist organization representing 15 denominations, mostly independent churches which have broken with other Protestant groups...
...Fundamentalist. In Los Angeles, Forest Rollins strolled out on the street stark naked to buy cigarettes, indignantly told the cops who pinched him: "This is the way God made...