Word: fundamentalistism
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With mock horror, Shaw recalls the dreadful results of Darwinism. Having once rejected the fundamentalist notion that "the universe is the work of a grotesque tribal idol described in the book of Numbers as God, who resolves to destroy the human race, but is placated by the smell of roast meat," the Darwinians decided that "the 39 articles were reduced to absurdity . . . Hell was abolished. Jehovah was exposed as an impostor whose real name was Jarvey . . . Talk of emptying the baby out with the bath! . . . Herod's massacre of the innocents was a joke in comparison...
Protestant fundamentalists are more conservative than the Catholics in their Biblical criticism. On Oct. 7, 38 fundamentalist editors will publish the Pilgrim Edition (Oxford University Press; $4.50). They use the King James translation and make flatly fundamentalist comments. Sample: "We can agree . . . with the suggested date of approximately 4000 B.C. for the creation...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...
Disillusion & Despair. Meanwhile, secularism was on the rise. The Protestant reaction to this challenge, says Niebuhr, took two forms. "One section of the church, usually identified as 'fundamentalist,' has sought to preserve the Christian heritage by denying every achievement of science . . . and by wrapping the essential truths of the Christian faith in obscurantism. . . . The other section of the church, usually defined as 'liberal'. . . has been pathetically eager to relate itself creatively to the achievements of a secular age-so eager, in fact, that it . . . has been inclined to sacrifice every characteristic Christian insight if only...
Sometimes Herald readers try to pin Dan Poling down on his exact shade of belief. In the current issue someone asked flatly whether he is a modernist or a fundamentalist. After hedging a bit, he blithely suggested that perhaps he is a "gentle fundamentalist." Dr. Dan has little time for pondering the subtleties of his religion -he is much too busy working...