Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith in a loving Creator, it is the fundamental challenge to divine credibility: centuries of Christian theological cerebration have led to no more satisfying conclusion than that evil truly exists and that in some unknown way it will be conquered and made to serve the hidden purposes of God. For believer and unbeliever alike, Dostoevsky's riddle-"What am I doing on this earth where sorrow reigns?"-can only be solved provisionally or not at all. The collective historical experience of America is such that it has not really contemplated the question, much less tried to answer it; since...
...that the Puritan ethos not only posits the fall of man, it also implies the existence of an Elect of God. America has presumed itself to be God's chosen remnant, to the point where it very nearly subscribes to the anthropocentric heresy of Pelagius, the 5th century Christian ascetic who argued that man could gain salvation without divine grace by his efforts alone. Put in secular terms, the Pelagianism of America means an unshakable faith in the righteousness of the U.S. "We tend to think," argues Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, "that it is not and cannot...
According to Christian moral theology, the self-awareness of sin and guilt is a necessary prologue to sanctity; in the prism of psychoanalysis, self-discovery is seen as the first step toward sanity. Individuals are not identical with nations, but sometimes they are analogous. And thus it can be argued that only the nation that has faced up to its own failings and acknowledged its capacities for evil and ill-doing has any real claim to greatness...
Introduced in 1965 by Socialist Deputy Loris Fortuna, the bill at first seemed likely to die in committee-as had ten previous divorce measures. By last July, however, the bill had won wide support. Then-time out for a government crisis. When the debate resumed this fall, 100 Christian Democratic Deputies filibustered against the bill. Replying to their protests, Sponsor Fortuna said: "Even now it is possible to break up a family by buying a fiscal stamp for 400 lire [66?]-the price of an application for a legal separation." Outside Parliament, demonstrators waved banners reading "Even Viet...
Less Like Andorra. Finally, a coalition of Socialists, Communists and right-of-center Liberals passed the bill by defeating a combination of Christian Democrats, Monarchists and neoFascists. Perhaps now, said the weekly L'Espresso, "Italy will be a bit more like England and Sweden and a bit less like Paraguay and Andorra...