> What you seem to be implying is that if fundamentalists would 'grow up',
> they would become liberals. I think there is a fair amount of research
> that bears on this issue. As people grow up, mature in their experience
> and thinking, they tend to become more conservative and relativistic.
De
ristian fundamentalism has matured over the last 125 years or so it
has become more relativistic, but has remained as conservative a ever.
My major point is that trying to put fundamentalism and liberalism on
the same plane or axis obscures more points than it explains.
As to Fowlers Stages of Faith, I&#x
Vaughan,
I must admit to not having come across this concept. Is it just a
question of relativity?
Owen
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> The problem I have with this paper and most others on the subject is the
> assumption that fundamentalism is a pole with liberalism at the other
> end.
Dear Don,
That's why I proposed Fowlers's Stages of Faith as an alternative paradigm.
In that paradigm *both* liberals and fundamentalist would
Susan Maneck wrote:
>
> This continues my review of articles from Reason and Revelation. Moojan's
> article can be found online here:
> http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/BSR/Articles/2_Momen_Fundamentalism.htm
>
The site has been re-organized and this paper is now at
http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk
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From: Owen Allen
Sometime in the future the Baha'i Faith will enter its winter and only a few
will be able to see their way to the next springtime. Do we allow fate to
carry us to that or do we exert every spiritual muscle to prevent it? What
do we know or might we come
from Reason and Revelation. Moojan's article can be found
online here: http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/BSR/Articles/2_Momen_Fundamentalism.htmMoojan
Momen's article "Fundamentalism and Liberalism" argues that these two different
approaches to religious questions can be better un
This continues my review of articles from Reason and Revelation. Moojan's
article can be found online here:
http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/BSR/Articles/2_Momen_Fundamentalism.htm
Moojan Momen's article "Fundamentalism and Liberalism" argues that these two
different app
