Word: fundamentalists
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...called "charismatic gifts"-prophecy, spiritual healing and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues-have long been characteristic of the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects. Increasingly, though, these unusual outpourings of spiritual feeling can be found in mainstream Protestant and even Roman Catholic congregations-and some church leaders are concerned about it. The 1968 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church ordered a special study of the spread of glossolalia. This month an ecumenical assembly of 120 churchmen met at Roman Catholic Dayton University in Ohio to discuss the movement...
...fashioned hymns, sung with tearful intensity by the church choir, were pure "soul"; a succession of black-robed speakers praised the memory of Dr. King in fustian oratory rich with Biblical imagery. In effect, it was a crystalline demonstration of the fact that Negro churches, by and large, are fundamentalist in outlook and still bear the marks of their origin as the spiritual hope of a people who once were slaves...
...urban areas, particularly in the North, Negro churches-like their white counterparts-have been suffering from a steady erosion of influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle...
...account for the context in which it was said. The quote in question was originally directed to me in a conversation on the night of March 8 at the Psychedelic Supermarket, a conversation which Mr. Jamison apparently misconstrued. I had asked Country Joe what his reaction was to a fundamentalist minister's charge that rock music was an attempt to destroy the sanctity of marriage. He facetiously agreed with the minister and said that rock had turned him into a faggot. The fact is that Country Joe is married and that his wife is expecting a child. Ken Emerson
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...