Abstract
Activist forms of fundamentalism present scholars with a paradox. How can the movement embrace an apocalyptic religious doctrine while advocating an optimistic political agenda? While many scholars conveniently ignore this paradox, George Marsden attempts to resolve it by arguing that fundamentalists integrate beliefs in political conspiracy and apocalyptic under a superordinate Manichean construct. Marsden suggests that this analysis can be extended through application of Hofstadter's hypothesis of political paranoia. Our application of the Hofstadter model to current antihumanist themes in fundamentalist rhetoric indicates that political paranoia alone will not resolve the paradox. Rather, the rhetorical justifications for political action arise from a specific interpretation of the relationship between biblical law and biblical gospel.
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