Word: fundamentalistism
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...fundamentalist, was a proponent of the "Great Awakening." Prentice was at his best preaching sermons, which caused "A Young woman of about 14 years of Age...such wraking Horror and Distress about her soul, which she that was dropping into Hell, that she Cryed out at that rate she might be heard...
...fable is of the Negro fundamentalist view of the Universe--angels at a fish-fry, Gabriel with a shiny French horn that he's itching to blow, and God in a black suit and string tie. This treatment is excellent comedy, but after a few scenes it is evident that Mr. Connelly has also achieved a meaning and honesty that is extraordinary. In his program note he writes that "The Green Pastures" is concerned with "Man's long, weary seeking for the Divine in himself." It is enough to say that Connelly has fully succeeded in expressing this search...
Main Street went through eleven printings in a few months. Lewis became one of the country's most prominent village atheists. In 1926, during a lecture in a Kansas City church, he challenged "the fundamentalist God" to strike him dead within ten minutes if He existed.* He was divorced from his first wife, wooed Foreign Correspondent Dorothy Thompson all over Europe, including the Soviet Union, finally won her in 1928 (they were divorced 14 years later...
...Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared...
...clergymen-Dr. Howard W. Ferrin, president of the fundamentalist Providence (R.I.) Bible Institute, and Brother Bartholomew, representing the Order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, in Woonsocket-were bidding for Edgewood Junior College on the palatial Frederick Peck estate in Barrington, R.I. That morning Dr. Ferrin had offered $250,000; Brother Bartholomew had topped it with $300,000. The judge had ordered that sealed bids be presented that afternoon. They were, and an astonished clerk read them out: for the Brothers, $331,000; for the institute...