Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy. In 1909 he landed at Texas, not only pioneered in the junior college movement but also in the fields of religious and esthetic education. Often caustic, he roundly denounced psychologists ("They have built a maze, mistaken it for the universe...
...This college is for all conditions and classes of men without regard to color, nationality, race or religion. A man may be white, black, or yellow; Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen, may enter and enjoy all the advantages of this institution for three, four or eight years, and go out believing in one God, many Gods, or no God. But it will be impossible for one to continue with us long without knowing what we believe to be the truth, and our reasons for that belief...
Thus, in 1871, an American missionary named Daniel Bliss laid down the credo of the small college he had founded six years before on a hillside outside Beirut. A center of Christian culture in a largely Moslem world, the small college throve and burgeoned, in 1920 became the American University of Beirut, which is today the largest American university outside U.S. territory...
...would have suburbia turn its back on this 'other directedness' and arrive at individual commitment through an atomistic thinking-through or insight." But "the very suburban mind which is looked at with fear by the detractors may well be the basis for a beginning of a new Christian era." Perhaps it is because the critics of suburban religion "lack insight into the nature of modern society and the group process that they would scratch out the gains of suburbia and start all over again in a comfortable model closer to their hearts' desire. But after...
...thing, the church gains in suburbia have not all been in numbers and money. "Within the suburban church there are more people listening attentively to the preaching of the Word who are taking part in administering the sacraments of the church, who are moving steadily toward lives of Christian devotion, and who are carrying the mission of the church through education and missionary endeavor...