Word: agnosticism
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Blessing with Ashes. Even such an agnostic as Jawaharlal Nehru, on the eve of becoming India's first Prime Minister, fell into the religious spirit. From Tanjore in south India came two emissaries of Sri Amblavana Desigar, head of a sannyasi order of Hindu ascetics. Sri Amblavana thought that...
Between Protestantism and the other great religions the barrier to theological unity is even less surmountable. An agnostic would say that, just as there are different sizes in clothing, it seems necessary to have many different theological in order to approximate the various specifications of different human souls. From the...
They will also find an interesting section devoted to non-Catholic poets who, Noyes feels, expressed Catholic thought and Catholic emotion. These include Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. Especially timely are the atomic-age overtones in Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres, written by Agnostic Henry Adams.
An agnostic who binds himself to the Ten Commandments, Essayist Orwell at 43 has attained an impressive position in British critical writing. A most skillful political pamphleteer (Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4),* he has won wide respect by not paying a cent of tribute to friends or foes of any...
An agnostic, Sartre took Kierkegaard's concept of tension, threw out God. "Whether God exists or not," he says, "is of no importance in our philosophy. There is no communication between Him and us." Since God is at best irrelevant, Sartre holds, man is responsible solely to himself. "You...