Word: ans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written during a hectic three-and-a-half weeks in the summer of 1741, Handel's oratorio has always been a smash. If a nearly endless succession of well-meaning popularizers have taken gross and extravagant liberties with it, Handel is partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured...
The Gallup poll records a slippage in U.S. church attendance on an average Sunday from 49% of the population in 1958 to 43% in 1968. The young are not as irreligious as they seem ?far from it. But most fail to recognize their religious impulse, and they satisfy it...
An aloof and alien technological society has already shocked man into a rediscovery of his own humanity, with all its hopes and miseries. In every faith and in every believer, there is once again a burgeoning awareness of God?or at least a sense that every man is a priest...
Something, clearly, has prompted such men to abandon the old forms. Although dissatisfaction with the rule of celibacy is one important cause, most dropout priests and many vocation specialists find that the roots of trouble are deeper. For some young curates in an old-fashioned rectory, it may be simply...
A similar conflict has begun to appear in the Jewish faith. "The world teeters and Judaism peters," writes Jewish Theological Seminary Graduate Ben Hollander in an outspoken criticism of Jewish seminary attitudes. "Flames flare close; horrors in Harlem, clashes at Columbia. But the seminary inscrutably stands proclaiming its message. The...