Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted that he is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training. He has read a lot of Zen Buddhism." Though Marylyn is a Roman Catholic, the couple planned to send Mark to a Congregational church "on an irregular schedule." Painter, added Stuart, is "a political liberal...
Over the centuries the debris of a dozen cultures has piled up alongside its ancient caravan routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
...completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic. Stanford's religion course on ecumenism is taught jointly by Presbyterian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Michael Novak...
...cutoff of $10 million a year in U.S. military aid 13 months ago, Sihanouk's army has missed several paydays. Merchants are stewing over a downturn of business. Students and teachers grump about graft and corruption in government. And powerful Buddhists complain about Sihanouk's insistence that Buddhism is a socialist religion, implying that Buddhists can coexist with Communism...
...Buddhism & Blake. There is a strong streak of mysticism in Altizer, whose eclectic theology borrows from such diverse sources as Buddhism and William Blake. One of his key themes is the ultimate reconciliation of opposites. Man, he argues, has by now lost the sense of the sacred that was so vivid in the medieval world. Instead of trying to put God back into human life, says Altizer, the Christian should welcome the total secularization of the modern world, on the ground that it is only in the midst of the radically profane that man will again be able to recapture...