Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class at Princeton Theological Seminary heard that ancient dogma is a dangerously heavy burden. From the dean of Harvard Divinity School came the suggestion that Christianity may be at death's door, and that its spiritual legacy is more likely to push it through the door than the atheism of the present...
...theology is to be relevant to modern man's predicament, says Garnett, "it must reject the 'atheism' of a 'God' who is hidden beyond man's concrete thought in an immutable eternity impervious to man's tears . . . And it must proclaim by faith a personal God whose life and love and grief are not to be understood as mere symbols that describe nothing in the nature of the ultimate Being itself...
...whole chautauqua of oldtime New Thought charlatans but which nevertheless establishes Miller's importance-not for what he says but for what he is, a man who, in many different forms, rejects the Western tradition and abdicates its heavy honors. These forms include anarchy and fascism, atheism and religiosity, nihilism and authoritarianism, sex-as-an-act and sex-as-salvation, pacifism and violence, futurism and the cult of the primitive; they are not consistent with each other, but they are consistent with a modern disease and with a type. Says one of Miller's admirers...
This is the agin' book of the season. Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of California's Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett...
...phase decline of religion via pseudo religion, as Fitch sees it. Man began with God, "the only true faith," and then switched to the surrogate faiths of Nature, Humanity, Society (in the form of nationalism) and finally the Self. Today self-worship is in acute crisis, argues Fitch, and "atheism is at the end of its tether...