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The War Of The Worlds: The Militant Fundamentalism Of Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields And The Paradox Of Modernity., Doug A. Adams
The War Of The Worlds: The Militant Fundamentalism Of Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields And The Paradox Of Modernity., Doug A. Adams
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This biographical study of the militant fundamentalist, Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, tests traditional understandings of fundamentalism, especially its militancy, and applies both a new interpretative model for understanding Shields and a revisionist approach to the question of fundamentalist militancy. Shields’ fundamentalism was not the rabid anti-intellectualism of “a disgruntled and backward people who could not keep up with the culture of their time”[1] but instead illustrated the paradox of competing forces within the modern dialectic. The spiritual consequences of cultural liberalism within his own church and the horrific scenes he encountered as a guest of the Ministry of Information …