Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast of characters was utterly right, a collection that Dickens would have imagined if he had been a late 20th century American Nixon himself was a masterpiece of internal disharmonies, with a face-the discomfited scowl, the sudden stabbingly inappropriate smile-like five cats and a bitter Calvinist thrown into a Hefty bag. There was G. Gordon Liddy, the wild hair Nietzsche who held his hand in candle flames. There was Martha Mitchell, the Aunt Pittypat embarrassment and midnight telephone dipso who turned into an oracle...
...remember walking in my backyard when I was three and thinking about God. Looking at the green grass and the moss on a stone--that's all I can remember, but somehow it was very proto-spiritual." Twentieth-century Harvard produces few Calvinist theologians, but this morning it will graduate one Charles Dana Klingensmith...
...Stijl was not far from a religious movement-Dutch Calvinist piety in the realm of art. Its name, first used as the title of the group's magazine when Van Doesburg started it in 1917, and later transferred to the artists themselves, meant The Style-the last one, the one and only, suggesting some final mutation of art and thus the end of art history itself...
...Pope is far from alone among church leaders. Lutheran, Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November...
...MORE than fitting that the religion the twentieth century chose to bequeath to history was psychoanalysis. More grimly deterministic than anything any Calvinist or Marxist could conceive, it is proper faith of a century in which men seem to get better at doing just about everything while events get more and more absurdly out of control. Revealed through the agency of a Viennese Jew who alternately wore the hats of humanist, scientist, prophet and pariah, psychoanalysis is a creed without a salvation. There are no elect, and the priesthood does not claim to be holier than the laity. Adhered...