ABSTRACT

This study explored the lived experience of adversity as spiritual struggles among fundamentalists. Ten Christian fundamentalists participated in phenomenological interviews and provided descriptions of their experiences with adversity. A hermeneutic-thematic analysis of transcribed interviews derived a structured pattern of five interdependent themes that described meaning in the experience of adversity for all participants. In adversity, they were aware of a specific adversary as the source of adversity; an alternation between negative-positive emotions; standing up against or down from the adversary; struggling through the adversity; and spiritual change. Themes are discussed in relation to the existential grounds of body, others, and time, and research.

摘要

这项研究探讨了原教旨主义者之间作为精神斗争的逆境的生活经历。十位基督教原教旨主义者参加了现象学访谈，并描述了他们在逆境中的经历。对转录访谈的诠释学主题分析得出了五个相互依赖的主题的结构化模式，这些主题描述了所有参与者逆境经历的意义。在逆境中，他们意识到特定的对手是逆境的源头；消极积极情绪之间的交替；站起来反对或反对对手；在逆境中挣扎；和精神上的改变。讨论与身体、他人、时间和研究的存在基础相关的主题。