Word: calvinistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RISE OF SINCERITY is thereby inseparable from a larger, subtler revolution in European culture; the pre-eminence of "society" and "community" replaced the older authority of feudalism and of the Church. The "Revolution of the Saints" described by Michael Walzer, with the Calvinist insistence on moral commitment to the community, individual integrity and truthful "plain speaking," is clear expression of the rise of sincerity. The arts followed suit, with narrative elucidating the individual self in autobiography and the novel. Finally, psychoanalysis emerged as a late phase of this quest of the whole, sincere self--being a narrative technique whereby...
...onset of standard time comes like some Calvinist retribution, the sudden blue hour of premature evening when for reasons of custom the nation is condemned to go home in darkness...
Such wordploy is the mark of the DeVries oeuvre, at once its most noticeable-and least significant-characteristic. For between the punch lines, DeVries shows himself as a lapsed Calvinist who sees the world as a reproach to that incurable hypocrite, man. Irony is DeVries' weapon, and this collection of fugitive pieces extends his gallery of not always humane inconsistencies. When a worker obeys a "Think" sign, he is dismissed for woolgathering. An executive boasts of an affair he was strong enough to resist. But after his wife's resulting diatribe, he is furtively making plans for consummation...
...Emily Dickinson's inspiration in writing the poems. My own feeling is that Emily Dickinson composed in order to ready her heart before God in the same way that Edward Taylor wrote his meditations to ready his heart for the composition of a sermon. But where Edward Taylor's Calvinist God of the 18th Century was as theologically and emotionally fixed as a God could be. Emily's mid-19th Century God was drowned in theological confusion, ministerial debacle and social disarray. Emily Dickinson readied herself before a confusing being who never made clear the emotion or the understanding...
...evolution of man toward a new state of consciousness. The Lama Foundation: a commune devoted to the study of Eastern mysticism. *Ivan Illich: brilliant priest who believes in deschooling society but founded a school of his own in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Jacques Ellul: French historian and lay theologian of a Calvinist persuasion...