Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinks that America's divided Protestants suffer from too much Protestantism. Said Episcopalian gadfly Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell in a recent Atlantic Monthly: the chief obstacle to Christian unity is not mere divergence of structure and administration among the churches, but the cleavage between those who believe in Christ's divinity and those who don't. Says neo-orthodox Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the current Presbyterian quarterly, Theology Today: "The problem of ecumenical Christianity in America is the problem of resolving what is true and false in both the Church and the sect idea of Christianity...
...Christ would as soon be worshipped in the Seventies as in the Forties...
George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
...Idea of Christ in the Gospels confronts the reader with no such unpleasant choice of illusion or disillusion. Now Santayana accepts the illusion. If religion is a myth, he says, no disparagement is thereby implied, since science, philosophy, history and other "images" of the universal flux are also myths. "In a word, fate decrees that we shall take our ideas to be knowledge; and in this we are not misled. . . . Nothing in this knowledge bears to be pressed or scrutinized too closely; but most of it, if taken lightly and conventionally, as we take language, helps to carry us prosperously...
...believes that belief in immortality can be freed from "popular or philosophic errors" and yet preserve "the wisdom of the Catholic doctrine of the soul, its moral and spiritual soundness, with the idea of Christ for its model...