How To Fight Off A Fundamentalist
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How To Fight Off A Fundamentalist
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Author : Edward M. Craig
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2014-11-10
How To Fight Off A Fundamentalist written by Edward M. Craig and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with Religion categories.
Compassion and humility are among the most basic tenets of Christianity. In modern America, however, it is vengeful, self-righteous Christians who are the most vocal. For the increasingly forgotten moderate Christian, there's a strong chance that evangelical fundamentalists will someday bang on the door, either literally or figuratively. How does one defend himself or herself, and his or her beliefs, from a fundamentalist firebrand? Edward M. Craig's How to Fight Off a Fundamentalist is filled with rational, common-sense rebuttals to their irrational, sanctimonious arguments. Craig tackles hot-button issues like homosexuality, race, child abuse, war, and environmental degradation with keen insight and disarming humor. He has meticulously researched biblical texts, theology, and church history. He explores the surprising connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. From Manifest Destiny to the Catholic Church's pedophilia scandals to famous televangelist Joel Osteen's megamillions, Craig gives historical and real-life examples of fundamentalist hypocrisy. Non-Christians will appreciate that his book makes no assumptions about the reader's religious beliefs. Lay Christians will enjoy the amusing illustrations and the in-depth comparisons of the fundamentalist fervency of various Christian denominations on his “Sanctimometer.” Even clergymen might learn a thing or two from his dissection of the Bible's contradictions and historical inaccuracies.How to Fight Off a Fundamentalist provides thinking Christians and non-Christians alike a much-needed arsenal against self-righteous ignorance.
Defenders Of God
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Author : Bruce B. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1989
Defenders Of God written by Bruce B. Lawrence and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Political Science categories.
Today's media are rife with stories of modern-day defenders of God--Christian, Jew, and Muslim--in revolt against what they feel to be the modern rejection of God's teaching as revealed in their sacred texts. Historian Bruce Lawrence has written the first comparative study to make sense of these contemporary zealots. He argues that fundamentalism is not simply an anachronistic religious revival that will soon fade from the world scene, but rather a burgeoning global movement that we ignore at our peril. Lawrence explains the nature of fundamentalism; he details its manifestation in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity; and he asserts that fundamentalism is at the heart of the modern world: "Fundamentalists do not deny or disregard modernity; they protest as moderns against the heresies of the modern age." They use science, technology, and the mass media for their own ends, yet they reject scientific and technological theories that dilute what they believe to be absolute truths. "Without certitude, the world is doomed. With it, salvation (for some) is assured."--Publisher description.
Defend Yourself Against Bible Fundamentalists
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Author : Dr. Arthur August
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-21
Defend Yourself Against Bible Fundamentalists written by Dr. Arthur August and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-21 with Business & Economics categories.
About the Book Defend Yourself Against Bible Fundamentalists sheds light on how religious Fundamentalists are actively trying to get control of you by citing Holy Scripture as divine authority in order to revoke your rights and freedoms in these eight important non-spiritual areas. The passages within warn you of your dark and terrible future, if you let or give or help them get political control. About the Author Dr. Arthur August, having obtained a Doctorate from Loyola Marymount University, and having been raised by a New Thought Christian preacher, has the background to understand and expose the hidden agendas and the unrighteous political goals of religious Fundamentalists to control you. It has been a life-long study and learning experience.
Fighting Fundamentalist
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Author : Markku Ruotsila
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-02
Fighting Fundamentalist written by Markku Ruotsila and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-02 with History categories.
For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early days of America's culture wars. Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. Ruotsila traces McIntire's life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year pastorate in Collingswood, New Jersey, and his presidency of the International Council of Christian Churches, McIntire, Ruotsila shows, stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time. Drawing on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival collections-including the recently opened collection of the Carl McIntire papers and never-before-seen FBI files-Ruotsila looks beyond the McIntire of legend to discover a serious theological, political, and economic combatant, a tireless organizer who pioneered the public theologies, inter-faith alliances, and political methods that would give birth to the Christian Right. The moral values agenda of the 1970s and after would not have existed, Ruotsila shows, without the anti-communist and anti-New Deal activism that McIntire inaugurated. Indeed, twentieth-century American religious and political history were profoundly shaped by forces McIntire set in motion. Fighting Fundamentalist tells the overlooked story of McIntire and the movement he inspired.
The Psychology Of Religious Fundamentalism
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Author : Peter C. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 2005-03-31
The Psychology Of Religious Fundamentalism written by Peter C. Hill and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-31 with Psychology categories.
"This book presents an innovative psychological framework for understanding religious fundamentalism. Blending extensive research and incisive analysis, the highly regarded authors distinguish fundamentalist traditions from other faith-based groups and illuminate the thinking and behavior of believers. Offering respectful, historically informed examinations of several major fundamentalist groups, the volume challenges many commonly held stereotypes. In the process, it stakes out important new terrain for the psychological study of religion" -- BOOK JACKET.
Get Unstuck From Fundamentalism A Spiritual Journey
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Author : Robert P. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: Vivo! Publishing Co., Inc.
Release Date : 2006-03
Get Unstuck From Fundamentalism A Spiritual Journey written by Robert P. Crosby and has been published by Vivo! Publishing Co., Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Get Unstuck from Fundamentalism unravels the mystery behind the need to hold myths as literal truth and the need for certainty. Written in and laced with engaging Italian stories, it points beyond mere rejection of childhood upbringing to a deep spiritual shore that is there for all of us to find. Children live in a literal world where myths and reality are blurred such as the existence of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. Many of those beliefs are unraveled by the time you become an adult, but fundamentalism is that which remains locked into absolutism. It is as if all the answers and purpose of the world come from outside of yourself, and the stories if still held literally remain in charge of your thinking. Most aren't even aware of this. 30% of Americans hold fundamentalist beliefs, but only 9% call themselves a fundamentalist. Those who are unaware cannot realize that they live on the ends of strings that someone else pulls. Others live in reaction against their childhood literal beliefs and therefore shut themselves off from further spiritual growth.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Author : Mohsin Hamid
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-04-24
The Reluctant Fundamentalist written by Mohsin Hamid and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-24 with Fiction categories.
The Man Booker-shortlisted, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . . Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.
Fighting Fundamentalist
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Author : Markku Ruotsila
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Fighting Fundamentalist written by Markku Ruotsila and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist restores the controversial fundamentalist pastor and broadcaster Carl McIntire to his place as one of the most influential religious leaders in twentieth-century United States and one of the principal founders of the Christian Right.
The Battle For God
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Author : Karen Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2001-01-30
The Battle For God written by Karen Armstrong and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-30 with Religion categories.
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish. We see the West in the sixteenth century beginning to create an entirely new kind of civilization, which brought in its wake change in every aspect of life -- often painful and violent, even if liberating. Armstrong argues that one of the things that changed most was religion. People could no longer think about or experience the divine in the same way; they had to develop new forms of faith to fit their new circumstances. Armstrong characterizes fundamentalism as one of these new ways of being religious that have emerged in every major faith tradition. Focusing on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Muslim fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran, she examines the ways in which these movements, while not monolithic, have each sprung from a dread of modernity -- often in response to assault (sometimes unwitting, sometimes intentional) by the mainstream society. Armstrong sees fundamentalist groups as complex, innovative, and modern -- rather than as throwbacks to the past -- but contends that they have failed in religious terms. Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each impelling the other on to greater excess, she suggests compassion as a way to defuse what is now an intensifying conflict. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.
Casting The First Stone
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Author : R. A. Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: HarperElement
Release Date : 1993
Casting The First Stone written by R. A. Gilbert and has been published by HarperElement this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Religion categories.
Christian lay reader, antiquarian bookseller and mystical philosopher Gilbert examines the battle lines that have been drawn between orthodoxy and non-orthodoxy, tradition and "alternative" innovation, religious fundamentalism and the "New Age" and looks at the activities of intolerant extremist pressure groups whose aim is to impose their own restrictive values and belief systems on all levels of society.