Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian attempts to proselyte Jews are not only futile, argues Niebuhr, but wrong, because the two faiths are "sufficiently alike for the Jew to find God more easily in terms of his own religious heritage than by subjecting himself to the hazards of guilt feeling involved in a conversion to a faith, which, whatever its excellencies, must appear to him as a symbol of an oppressive majority culture. Both Jews and Christians will have to accept the hazards of their historic symbols. These symbols may be the bearers of an unconditioned message to the faithful. But to those outside...
...liberal Protestant Christian Century headed its editorial page last week with a blast from the Rev. Charles Duell Kean of Washington's Episcopal Church of the Epiphany against the U.S. Navy for attaching a St. Christopher medal to its successful Vanguard satellite-bearing rocket. "Would it have served just as well." demanded Dr. Kean, "if along with the countdown routine, a man had been assigned at each stage in the process to cross his fingers and say 'Muggles'? Had anyone thought of attaching a four-leaf clover to the missile somewhere? The fact that a symbol...
...sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...
Today the Harvard Corporation can dim the most glaring aspect of the "religious controversy." To do so it must reverse what it may regard as a well-established precedent. The decisions which reserved Memorial Church for Christian wedding and funeral services must now appear inconsistent with the role of Harvard as a liberal university and with the role of the church as a memorial to war dead of all faiths. When this issue is resolved the University will be better able to evaluate the larger implications of religion at Harvard...
...Memorial Church "cannot welcome all religious points of view (and their services) into its sanctum," he maintained, "the Christian spirit in its purest statement has failed in application. 'Come unto me all ye...' is reduced to 'Come unto me those who agree in detail with me, and for the rest, we will help you go your...