Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These non-believers are, however, generally willing to recognize the value of religion for other students; only 10 per cent felt any need to "enlighten others by persuading them to abandon their faith." Compare this with the 75 per cent of present Christians who supported Christian missionary activity--the aspect of their religion accepted by the largest number of believing Christians...
...whatever he wishes in respect to God. For if nothing can be affirmed about Him, everything may be said of Him, as Tillich notes, and everything one says will have symbolic truth. It requires, of course, an extremely sensitive and intense mind to immerse oneself so thoroughly in the aspect of God one chooses that one may understand Him and render Him meaningful in one's existence...
This individuality was perhaps the most striking aspect of the response to the questionnaire. Only 31 per cent of admitted Protestants indicated belief in the immortality of the soul (defined as "the continued existence of the individual soul as a surviving entity after the end of organic life"); 4 per cent indicated that they did not know. Jews, for whom immortality is inconsequential, overwhelmingly rejected the doctrine; most Catholics accepted it (though four out of 23 denied it and two did not know). Similarly, a large number of Protestants considered Christ as not divine, but "only as a very great...
Student interest in Protestantism has taken two divergent paths, one of lessened concern, another of increased concern. The "organizational" aspect of Protestantism has suffered greatly under the surge of religious renewal. Students simply have little interest in the "speaker-games-refreshments" routine of many Sunday evening groups, scoring such undertakings as "trivial," "mundane," "unworthy of a religious person's interest." Slightly over six per cent of the Protestants covered by the CRIMSON poll participated regularly in fellowship activities...
Salzedo turned to the harp itself, transformed its physical aspect by replacing the fussy gold with businesslike polished maple. Salzedo then experimented with compositions for the harp, made it into a versatile solo instrument. Says Modernist Composer Edgar Varese: "Carlos is an innovator, an adventurer. He has succeeded in changing the sex of the harp -minimizing its golden aura of Victorian femininity; he has discovered and explored its virility...