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What is fundamentalism?
The word is thrown around somewhat carelessly today. The original meaning referred to the five fundamentals of Christian doctrine:
* Inerrancy and inspiration of the Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:16)
* The virgin birth and the deity of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14)
* The doctrine of substitutionary atonement through God's grace and human faith (Hebrews 9)
* The bodily resurrection of Jesus (Matthew 28)
* The authenticity of Christ's miracles and his Second Coming ((Matthew 8, Matthew 12, Luke 21)
The negative view of the term comes from those people who have gone off on tangents within and outside those basic ideas. Your intelligent and well thought-out opinions?
7 Answers
- NJ GoldLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
It has become a slur and it has a much different meaning than the abuses that post-modernism has attached to the word.
fun.da.men.tal.ism (noun) - A movement in American Protestantism that stresses the infallibility of the Bible in all matters of faith and doctrine, accepting it as a literal, historical record.
Source(s): Random House Dictionary of the English Language, College Edition, p. 535. - Anonymous1 decade ago
what is the fundament of life? youre fundament where did you start where was it thast made you THINK for the first time, thats a good way to start . fundation comes to mind what is youre foundation? if we only refere to something else all the time we do not exist thats dangerous cos we are important to very so EVAN whren we are a teacher you must had a reason to do so what wa the VOICE that made you go into teaching? EVAN is important i know i should have explaned it a lot more not everyone is on my LEVEL also an important key word for many things aswell teacher many respect! so much to go for to tell, will they listen? will the hear when they listen? thats the key..all for a reason.. brave good hart /feelings /human/ world /economy/ goverment/ lesson to lurn thats why you are a teacher and should be and thats why i am a architect also a basic form of essence of life perspective is a very wide field /teacher or teaching is also a wide field bless x
- robert sLv 51 decade ago
Fundamentalism refers to the foundations upon which an idea is based it is not merely a christian ideal.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
1) No - People are linked to violence
2) Fundamentalism is by definition religion based.
3) in so far as society is not responding as fundamentalism would have them respond, but the method of expression is a result of culture.
Fundamentalism is best practiced in private. i.e. Quakers
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Protestantism in extreme form
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Fundamentalism is NOT precisely defined
I prefer reformed-conservative-orthodox myself