Fundamentalism and "Fullness of Christianity": Catholicism's Double Challenge

As a socio-cultural phenomenon fundamentalism may be understood as ideological rigidity. Religious worldviews, characteristic of orally transmitted religious traditions, are reshaped as orthodoxies measured by written texts as religious traditions become literate. Ideology is a characteristic of lit...

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Main Author: White, Leland J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 1988
In: Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 1988, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 50-59
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