Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colossal Effrontery." Son of a Virginia shoe jobber, Lewis Strauss (pronounced straws) was born in Charleston, W. Va., raised in Richmond. Chosen valedictorian of his high school class, he combined his two boyhood passions, physics and religion, in an address entitled "Science and Theology: A Reconciliation." "Fortunately," says Strauss, "this colossal effrontery has not survived...
...teaching have been much modified -notably his doctrine of election, the role of civil authority as protector of the church, and the word-splitting intolerance of other Protestant doctrines. Today the churches of the Calvinist tradition are newly sensitive to the need for a united Protestantism. In an "Address to our Fellow Christians after 400 Years." 31 Calvinist leaders in Europe, Asia. Africa and the U.S. last week called for a new unity among the churches...
Probably no one has been more concerned with the role of religion in a secular university than President Pusey. In his Divinity School address in 1953 and his Baccalaureate sermons, Pusey has stressed that the twentieth century has destroyed earlier illusions about man's nature, that the Christian psychology provides better comprehension of the nature of man better than did nineteenth century liberalism. President Pusey is evidently a sincerely devout man; and with the issue of faith so important in his own thinking, resolving the tensions between the role of a secular university embracing diverse beliefs and what he believes...
...Baccalaureate sermon of 1954 he declared: "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for special privilege...
...matchbox houses in Chelsea and Knightsbridge that cost only hundreds to build. I can get people to spend fabulously for a mean little house because a princess once used the lavatory there. Even sensible businessmen act like superstitious peasants in responding to the magic of a 'good' address...