Word: believerism
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I wish Angell was like Wallace Stevens, an insurance man doubling as a psychotic baseball freak. His writing, since his collection The Summer Game was published, has increasingly gone beyond the usual vanishing-sport, vanishing-values cliche and into an allusive yet serious search for what baseball did, does and...
In fact, it is clear that Speer is not a believer, in either God or much of anything. In metaphysics as in religion, he is fundamentally an agnostic. Though he decries the lack of morality in Nazi Germany, Speer can offer no alternative. He writes in 1952, "Much too late...
When Tom Sanders replaced Bob Harrison as Harvard's roundball coach three years ago, it was like replacing night with day. Harrison was a believer in the "win-at-all-costs" philosophy, one which won him too few victories for the talent with which he had to work and a...
The candidate contends that he understands the needs of the people, perhaps even some that they do not yet recognize. Fully a year ago, he visited the mayor of Plains to discuss the need for a new zoning ordinance in town. Carter feared that once he became President, tacky souvenir...
Pannenberg's dispute with the liberal Bultmann over the issue of Christ's resurrection, for example, won him a misleading fundamentalist image. No believer in biblical literalism, Pannenberg nevertheless thinks that Bultmann's evasion of the resurrection as a historical event is rationally untenable. As circumstantial evidence...