Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective by Lawrence Kaplan

Author:Lawrence Kaplan [Kaplan, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, General, Fundamentalism, Comparative Religion, Philosophy, test
ISBN: 9780870237973
Google: i84nAAAAYAAJ
Amazon: 0870237985
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1992-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

nocence. . . . From Tertullian on, there has always been some degree of protest in Christianity about what intellectuals are alleged to do to the purity and strength of faith. Not all of this protest can be simply dismissed as irrationalism. It poses an important question, at least for church-affiliated theologians. How is it that when religious belief and practice are brought in harmony with reasonable requirements of the secular world, so often they lose their power to attract and to satisfy? It sometimes seems that a church which squares up with modernity loses precisely the "Dionysian" element which fundamentalism so often preserves. . . . The Kantian ideal of "religion within the limits of reason" is, in the end, the most unreasonable aim of all, because it neglects an element in human nature which is both necessary to spiritual health and impervious to the censorship of reason. Popular religion, even in its most superstitious, anti-intellectual, or emotionalist manifestations may be telling us something we do not want to hear in academe. Just as the cigarette manufacturers are compelled to display a warning on the cigarette package, so perhaps faculties and departments of theology might be profitably compelled to display in their lecture halls the warning, "Dionysus always strikes back"which is only another way of expressing the New Testament conviction that the Spirit breathes where he wills. 48

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