Word: agnosticism
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The Tidings, weekly Catholic newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese, charged Eleanor Roosevelt with being an agnostic who "apparently does not acknowledge God" and is therefore unfit to have headed the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The argument started on the CBS program This I Believe, when Mrs. Roosevelt...
Pär Lagerkvist was brought up to devout Lutheranism. Grown, he turned agnostic. But his best novel, Barabbas, now published in the U.S., sounds as though Author Lagerkvist has never lost a deep preoccupation with, faith. Barabbas is a spare, subtle story about the struggle of a brutish man...
...Santa Clara in California, he left both his faith and his college and set out to be a good agnostic lawyer. He graduated from the University of Southern California Law School, and in 1938 earned a J.S.D. at Yale, then went to Washington. About that time, he found his agnosticism wearing a bit thin and he joined the Episcopal Church...
The Yale faculty was eager to condemn Buckley's views on teaching but none came to the defense of those who were attacked personally for their views on politics and religion. Believing that Yale considers Christianity as just another philosophy, he states that Dr. Lovett's classes are thought of...
Was She a Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by...