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Swallowed byChristianity? "It is not enough for the applicant to say he feels Jewish." argued State Attorney Zvi Bar-Niv. "Jewishness is not a club based on feeling." Citing authorities from the Talmud to St. Augustine, Bar-Niv insisted that "an Israeli may be Christian, Moslem or atheist. But 'Jew' connotes not belonging to any other religion. The attribute of a Jew is a common culture, and religion is the basis of that culture whether you observe it or not." Angry editorials in the Orthodox press were heavy with the ancient Jewish fear of being swallowed...
...content but by readership. "It's a great paper," said Newhouse, after buying a minority interest in the Denver Post two years ago. "It has a circulation of 250,000." When he is moved to talk about the printed matter in his papers, Newhouse sounds like an atheist discussing the relative merits of Christianity and Buddhism...
Thunderous Picnic. The death ended a literary vendetta as implacable as any feud in the Kentucky hills. Tall, handsome Stanhope and rude, arrogant Curtal spent a lifetime competing for women, fame, friends, disciples and the minds of men. Atheist, lecher and revolutionary...
...during the Battle of the Bulge, and ever since has had little patience with theology that is "remote from the affairs of the people." Shinn says: "We hear a lot about dialogue between Catholics and Protestants. I'm more interested in hearing talk between the Protestant and the atheist." He seems to be engaged in that kind of talk himself: one of his works in progress is an analysis of contemporary views of freedom. Shinn has also just finished a book on the problems of Christian education, and is chairman of a committee that is writing a study...
Barth has been variously damned as a heretic, a narrow-minded Biblicist, and an atheist in disguise-and praised as the most creative Protestant theologian since John Calvin. President James McCord of Princeton