Word: christiane
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Leadership & Maturity. Indeed, says Hocking, this "broader empiricism" is the "potential friend of religion.'' And of all religions. Christianity is most at home with it, for it was in the Christian West that it grew up. That does not mean that Christianity must be solely Western: its commitment is not to any society or institution, but to the simple precept of love of God and neighbor. The closer it stays, to that commitment, the more universal it becomes. At the same time, its very "travail through the western passes of modernity has qualified it, and requires...
...taking that leadership towards a universal religion for a world that is becoming scientifically one, Christianity need not replace other religions. Since in their basic concepts-e.g., the idea of dying to gain life, the idea of renunciation as a condition of insight-the great religions are already "fused ... at the top," they can continue to exist within the framework of an overall world view which will "necessarily be Christian in substance." But to achieve leadership, Christianity must first recapture the "spiritual iron" that the East has never lost...
Georgia's standpat segregationists got a shock with their Sunday paper this week. Glaring from the pages of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (circ. 512,559) was a statement signed by almost every leading Protestant minister in Atlanta-80 in all-which came out foursquare for the Christian view of race relations, individual liberty and the law of the land...
...pretend to know all the answers. We are of one mind, however, in believing that Christian people have an especial responsibility for the solution of our racial problems and that if, as Christians, we sincerely seek to understand and apply the teachings of Our Lord and Master we shall assuredly find the answer . . . We do believe that all Americans, whether black or white, have a right to the full privileges of first-class citizenship. To suggest that a recognition of the rights of Negroes to the full privileges of American citizenship, and to such necessary contacts as might follow, would...
...traveling up and down Northern and Southern Rhodesia holding healing services. Last week, before mud huts and in forest clearings, Elias opened his services to open-mouthed Africans: "Do not mock that a child should dare to speak to his elders, because I bring you the words of God." Christian missionaries in Rhodesia plan to dissuade their converts from following little Elias, but they are waiting to see whether the boy is just a freak or whether he will really catch on. Meanwhile, Elias has expressed his earthly ambition. Said he: "I want to become the world's youngest...