Fundamentalist Christianity

Christianity was widely spread in the Americas because of the European domination. With European Christians in power they forced their faith on the natives and slaves without anyone to stop them. Another reason was the fact that in the Americas there were many faiths not a just a small amount of widespread ones, and African faiths that Often conflicted allowing Christianity to gain a foothold in multiple communities that was supported by the ruling Europeans. Christianity in Asia was…

Liberal Christianity vs Christian Fundamentalism There has always been a tension between those who have a liberal perspective and those who have a fundamentalist perspective on anything in life. This is for good reason, those with liberal views believe change is necessary and those with fundamentalist views believe that change is not. When you apply these two ways of thinking to a religious text such as the Christian Bible you get a separation within a religion. Between the two ways of…

Christians that anti-Semites would make about Jews. It demonizes 'the other.' Despite the constant citation of Scripture, the portrayal of Christianity in the drama is the antithesis of what real Christianity is. Real Christianity is not religious hypocrites enforcing their perverted teachings through the barrel of a gun.” While Robertson is right that real Christianity is not “religious…

consider Christianity to be a religion, but do we see Atheism as being a religion in itself? Believe it or not, Atheism and Christianity hold a number of similarities, and the single factor I have chosen to compare between the two is whether or not they hold similar attributes that, according to my views, help make up a religion. Both Christianity and Atheism share the aspects of community, beliefs about God, and fundamentalism. The similarities between these aspects of Atheism and Christianity…

Religion, according to sociologists, is a system of beliefs which are share on a basis of faith. Those who share the same religion also share a common way of life and behaviors connected through faith. However, one’s definition and practice of a particular religion can completely differ from another. In the documentary Jesus Camp, religion is taken to a different level from most of society’s standards. On the other side of the spectrum, the Christian children and mentors in the film believe…

the Acceptance model. The book is organized in fours parts, a part for each model. Knitter begins with the Replacement model; he says that the Fundamentalists use this model the most. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals make up a big part of contemporary Christianity. Knitter uses a quote by Martin Marty on page 19 to stress the presence of Fundamentalist and Evangelicals; Marty compares them to the rocky mountains of the American landscape, hard to miss. Knitter stresses that people should not…

separate from God therefore, Christianity completely relied on God. According to Bingham (2002), Schleiermacher believed that “God is a sovereign power, but God is not to be separated from the world. The theologian’s refusal to objectify God is consistent with his subjective approach to religion” (p. 151). Liberalism condensed Christianity into a single aspect of feeling. Liberalism was mostly a reductive theological movement that reduced the orthodox essence of Christianity into an aspect that…

“Without contraries there is no progression”, stated by the poet, painter, and printmaker, William Blake. One must say, the founding of Christianity and Mormonism was likely to be considered a cult during their time period. Not only did these two religions face prosecution from their societies for having different ideals, but also they both had two charismatic leaders that believed that were encountered by God to spread His word, at two very different time periods. In this paper, one will see…

denominations. The evangelical faith consists of four specific elements: Biblical, theological, historical, and cultural (Webber, 2002). Evangelical faith includes the supremacy of the Gospel, Scripture and early church creeds, a renewal of historic Christianity, and adaptation to cultural context. The two central beliefs of Sola Scriptura and Christ alone compose Evangelical Theology. Sola Scriptura states the Bible is God’s self-revelation and its best interpreter with the guidance of the Holy…

I vividly remember the first time I got on my knees to pray. I was four-years-old, and I was with my mom. She taught me the Lord’s Prayer, and after that she told me to repeat these words: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take” (Johnstone). The last part of the prayer is what my family always said which was “bless mommy and daddy, and everyone in the whole wide world. Amen.” Saying these prayers and going…