Word: calvinistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SERVING OTHERS. "I was brought up in a strong puritan tradition, which valued hard work and self-reliance, combined with the Calvinist approach to life, that you should put back into it more than you take out. If you have a good education and don't have to worry about money all the time, you have a special obligation to serve others . . . Though I'm no churchgoer now, I still consider myself a religious man. I particularly like Paul Tillich's definition of religion as a state of being grasped with an infinite concern. Because...
...showcase, the $10 million National Presbyterian Church and Center. The tower was dedicated to TIME'S founder, Henry Robinson Luce, a zealous, lifelong Presbyterian, who was a major driving force behind the center. McCord delivered an address entitled "The Faith of Henry Luce," which characterized Luce as "a Calvinist who understood life as an exodus and pilgrimage." Without specifically mentioning COCU, McCord touched on a key problem facing organized ecumenism. Typical of today, he said, was a "flight away from the unity of man. Wherever you look, man seems to be seeking the smaller tribal group. He is looking...
...were turned over to English and Scottish colonizers of the Protestant faith. Much of Ireland's history since then has been a record of bloodshed and trouble. Some milestones: 1690. King James II of England, a Catholic convert, was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne by his Calvinist successor, William of Orange. In succeeding years, the Penal Laws further restricted the Catholics' right to education, administrative posts and land ownership...
...expresses this everywhere, from the drawings up to the feelings that anybody who has power, who actually tries to make decisions involving the whole society, is ergo corrupt or insane. You get a kind of Calvinist sense of damnation connected with running the machinery--the machinery is going to be there, in any case--you can't revolutionize social machinery. It's a kind of wariness, a kind of unpleasability, a hopeless miasma arises from those pages...
...expresses this everywhere, from the drawings up to the feelings that anybody who has power, who actually tries to make decisions involving the whole society, is ergo corrupt or insane. You get a kind of Calvinist sense of damnation connected with running the machinery--the machinery is going to be there, in any case--you can't revolutionize social machinery. It's a kind of wariness, a kind of unpleasability, a hopeless miasma arises from those pages...