Die widerwilligen Zeitgenossen: Ein Blick auf die Geschichte des amerikanischen Fundamentalismus

A friend draws my attention to: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/die_widerwilligen_zeitgenossen_1.12675976.html

My response: The author, Francis Müller, has interesting things to say about "Fundamentalism" but he does not seem to understand that people of faith (any faith - including atheism, rationalism, evolutionism, secularism, et al) are always, by definition, going to be appreciative as well as critical of all that is around them. Appreciate because any faith worth having must heighten our appreciation and gratefulness for all that is good.

But why critical?

For those like me, who are followers of Jesus, we are bound to be as anti-Christian as we are anti-modern. In the tradition of the prophets, we affirm what is good and seek to embrace the best, but we retain the right to reject and to resist (lovingly and peacefully) all that is wrong.

This is not because we are "anti-modern" (even "post-modernists" are "anti-modern").

This is because we try to seek for and follow Truth, not merely the truths, standards and criteria that are merely respectable or even fashionable in our age or in any age.

Best wishes
Prabhu