Word: fundamentalistism
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Manning's government is the nearest approach to a theocracy in the Western Hemisphere. The slight (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) premier, who practices his own brand of Baptist-fundamentalist evangelism, has been blending religion and politics throughout his public career. Says Manning: "Religion isn't to be kept on a shelf and only taken down on Sundays." A well-thumbed Bible is always open on his desk in Edmonton's Parliament Building. In every public speech, religion, not politics, is the dominant theme. "I abhor the word politician," Manning has repeatedly told Albertans...
...Protestant, nondenominational, fundamentalist New Tribes Mission makes a specialty of aborigines, hardships and dogged courage. Two of its planes have crashed in mission work within a year of each other: a DC-3 in June 1950, killing 13 missionaries, a converted C-47 last November, killing several children and the mission's energetic founder-director, 40-year-old Paul W. Fleming...
Army Chaplain Rudolf Albert Renfer had just finished a Sunday battlefield sermon somewhere in Germany when shrapnel from enemy artillery put him out of World War II. Two years ago, Presbyterian Renfer became professor of church history and missions at nondenominational, fundamentalist Dallas Theological Seminary. But when the Korean war broke out, he began worrying about the chaplaincy again -a branch of the ministry that looked as though it would be around for a long time...
...much "material emphasis in chaplains' training, the emphasis on the purely social gospel. When a man is dying, he doesn't give a hang about social betterment. In the last analysis, what he wants is a ministry of conviction and spiritual comfort." Renfer felt that, at fundamentalist Dallas, most of his young theologians hardly needed to be told that. But he thought there ought to be a special course "to teach them a new way to use a tool they already have or should have." He started what is considered the first specific course in chaplaincy training...
...minister. During his undergraduate years at Indiana's Taylor University, he spoke more than 400 times at meetings and churches throughout the Middle West. From Taylor he went to Princeton Theological Seminary; when a right-wing group of the faculty broke away to form the fundamentalist-minded Westminster Theological Seminary, "Ockie" went along. He switched from Methodism to Presbyterianism soon after...