Showing posts with label fundamentalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fundamentalism. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

True Evangelization

Communicating Christ never means trying to impose oneself.  The Gospel is not a vise that clamps down upon another person's conscience and entraps that person.  A believer from Bangladesh, speaking about those around him who do not know Christ, said, "When you are near a fire, you are warmed.  When the fire of God's love is in us, does it not shine on those who are close to us, even if we do not realize it?"

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Fundamentalism

"..."fundamentalisms" all follow a certain pattern. They are embattled forms of spirituality, which have emerged as a response to a perceived crisis. They are engaged in a conflict with enemies whose secularist policies and beliefs seem inimical to religion itself. Fundamentalists do not regard this battle as a conventional political struggle, but experience it as a cosmic war between the forces of good and evil. They fear annihilation, and try to fortify their beleaguered identity by means of a selective retrieval of certain doctrines and practices of the past."


Karen Armstrong