Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harlots had made so much money that they had moved into good homes in some of Honolulu's best residential districts. When Advertiser Cummings publicized this fact, some public indignation sprang from the mistaken belief that the places he listed were houses of prostitution rather than homes of prostitutes...
More specifically he prescribes: ". . . Our central need is for a contemporary redemptive society which will do for us what the redemptive society envisaged by Augustine did for his generation. . . . Christianity won in the Roman Empire, not chiefly as a belief, though it was a belief, but more as a self-conscious fellowship. ... A group of 50 really devoted Christians who are not in the least apologetic and who are willing to make the spread of the gospel their first interest would affect mightily any campus in the country, no matter how great the initial opposition might be. The same...
...picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
...going to have a more Bible-centered program than I have had previously. I want young people to know God through an understanding of the Scriptures. In the Army, when I observed Protestants and Catholics engaged in discussions on matters of belief, I found that the Protestants appeared at a disadvantage. Profiting by this fact, I want my church to know why it is Protestant, what are the distinctive tenets of the Protestant branch of the Christian Church, and how indigenous and basic Protestantism is to the genius of the Christian faith...
...books' simultaneous publication emphasized a fact that doctors are only gradually persuading childless couples to believe: either partner may be the cause of childlessness. Says Dr. Siegler: "There are still individuals who believe that sterility can be blamed only on the female. This belief is obviously based upon ignorance. Yet it is appalling to note the number of women subjected to various examinations and even to surgery without attempting to seek the causative factor in the male...