Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divorce suit is pending. More important, said the defense, was the fact that "the federal and state constitutions guarantee to all religious groups the right to hold and preach doctrines." If that guarantee is meaningful, then surely a church cannot be liable for the consequences of stating a specific belief...
...country's continuing balance of payments deficit, its constantly out-of-balance domestic budget and its rising outflow of money to finance the war in Viet Nam are basically responsible for global concern about the soundness of the dollar. Concern has led to the belief that the U.S. would soon have to stop selling gold to all buyers at $35 an ounce and somehow raise the price. The possibility of a price increase touched off the worldwide run on gold...
Card Carrier. As the Depression deepened, so did Wright's belief that radical politics held the only promise for social and racial justice. In 1932, he joined the Chicago John Reed Club and, says Miss Webb, "committed himself wholeheartedly-morally, intellectually and artistically-in the fullest gesture of his life." Miss Webb is hesitant to say outright that Wright was cynically used by the American Communist Party to rally Negro support. Yet she makes it quite clear that, although Wright carried a party card, he was too preoccupied with his problems as an artist and his own writing career...
...church law, asserts Editor Carl F. H. Henry of Christianity Today, "the theology of violence considers itself beyond the law. It needs no explanation and gives none." Protestant Moralist Paul Ramsey of Princeton describes the theology of violence as a "resurgence of Utopianism," since it is predicated on the belief that "the establishment has no political justification as long as there is injustice." Warns Harvard's Potter: "You haven't solved the moral problem when you say, 'Gee, I wish the underdogs would...
Without Humor. As Cox sees it, mirth and festivity involve a certain juxtaposing of past with present, which has the effect of affirming experience. "When one approaches religious faith with a kind of playfulness," he says, "one can't become as anguished and inwardly torn up about belief and nonbelief as has been popular in recent theological literature. For both the Christian spirit and the comic sensibility nothing in life should be taken too seriously. The world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there...