Fundamentalism

• Characteristics: 

  1. Rejects external threats to traditional beliefs 
  2. Bible is inerrant (without error) 
  3. Aggressive reaction to external threats 
  4. Keen to use modern technology
  5. Patriarchal 
  6. Prophetic: faithful transported to heaven before 7 year rule of the anti-Christ and then Armageddon
  7. Conspiracy Theorists
• Aldridge 2013: no text speaks for itself, must be interpreted. Bible solely as a set of historical facts and prophecies on the future.