On 4/12/06, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There was a lot of payback of collaborators with the Moors,
No, no. It was the Moops! > > Fundamentalism found it's foundation in the Reformation. Luther, Calvin, > et. al. needed to find an authority apart from the Catholic church. It was > scripture. Solo scriptura was the cry that undermined the authority of the > "keys of the kingdom." Still, I don't think that Luther was really a > fundamentalist in the modern sense. I don't think it's good to mention "sola scriptura" and leave out Luther's other two -- "sola fide" and "sola gratia." It wasn't just scripture, but faith and grace as well. > > So, that's why I said fundamentalism is new. *Christian* fundamentalism of the kind we have today is fairly new. But fundamentalism of all sorts has been around for all of recorded history, I'd wager. But I'm defining fundamentalism as the idea that one understands an idea completely, that it is perfect and frozen in time, never needing to be reinterpreted in the context of the present. As I think I've said here before, I see a lot of liberal capitalist fundamentalism in the USA these days -- and it is rarely challenged. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
