Fundamentalism vs Catholic - What's the difference?
fundamentalism | catholic |
(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
(finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of an instrument.
The beliefs held by those in this movement.
Strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles.
Universal; all-encompassing.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
Pertaining to all kinds of people and their range of tastes, proclivities etc.; liberal.
As nouns the difference between fundamentalism and catholic
is that fundamentalism is (religion) the tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts while catholic is a member of a catholic church.As an adjective catholic is
of the western christian church, as differentiated from eg the orthodox church.fundamentalism
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(wikipedia fundamentalism)Noun
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* (religion) (l)See also
* (l) (1) * (l) (2) * (l) (2) English words suffixed with -ismcatholic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Essentially, and in idea, the empire, in the minds of the Romans, was world-wide. This conception descended to the Church, which was ‘Catholic ’ in spite of Buddhists, Confucians, and (later) Muhammadans.
- He has catholic tastes.
