Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson maintained that Russia is a stable power. The belief it will be overthrown by revolution is wishful thinking...
...Haven police station reported a steady influx of phone calls filled with cries of "Gestapo" and language "profane beyond all belief." A spokesman maintained that there had been no unneeded roughness and that, to his knowledge, no arrests had been made unfairly...
This precarious perch for man's soul is a long way from traditional Christian belief. Paul Tillich. Reinhold Niebuhr said once, "is trying to walk a fence between man's doubts and the traditions of man's faith. He walks the fence with great virtuosity, and if he slips a bit to one side or the other, it is hardly noticed by us humble pedestrians." There are many humble and not-so-humble pedestrians who think that no man who calls himself a Christian has any business on the fence in the first place. A fence...
...thus acclaimed is also denounced by some orthodox Christian believers as not a Christian at all and possibly an outright atheist. Faith, according to Tillich. is not belief in God but "ultimate concern." Hence an atheist is a believer, too, unless he is wholly indifferent to the ultimate questions. Doubt is an in evitable part of faith. Sin is not some thing one commits, but a state of "estrangement" from one's true self. "The importance of being a Christian is that we can stand the insight that it is of no importance." says Tillich; the religious...
...attributed the apathy of Harvard toward business to a misunderstanding of what has taken place in business during the last generation. Concluding his remarks, Babb expressed the belief that "There is an opportunity in this world which only business can contribute: making possible for people to have a better economic way of life...