Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to study it because here we have a complete, sober and realistic record of the sex life of a people uninhibited by the things that inhibit sex life among people in the U.S. The Mochicas were not conditioned in their sex ual habits and attitudes by Judaic and Christian custom, principle and prejudice, among other things, as we are. My research among these huacos should tell me more about what is natural in sex than my research so far among American men and women...
...could expect salvation from the thousand-odd clerics, prelates and Christian laymen from the world's four corners who had gathered in Evanston, Ill. Yet more and more people expected help-on earth-from Christianity. Every week, in pulpits, editorials, Parliaments and Chancelleries, in universities, clinics and at cocktail parties, Christianity is invoked. Juvenile delinquency? Broken homes? Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat...
...provide earthly salvation, for that would be blasphemy; the kingdom of God must be sought for its own sake. But neither could they escape the atmosphere of urgency that surrounded their meeting. For the crescendo of ecumenical conferences of which Evanston is the climax† tells of a renewed Christian hope and a hunger for unity. These forces have brought together men and traditions that centuries of Christian history had driven asunder...
...their leaders to draw out of the 200-odd meetings some message for the world. There was plenty of disagreement about what the message could be, and the disagreements were well publicized. Newspapers across the U.S. sprouted an unfamiliar word-eschatology-and reported the theological differences on whether the Christian hope lay in this or the next world. In a sense the very attention paid to this disagreement was more significant than the disagreement itself. In the 20th century it was big news that more and more people saw a hope in Christianity, not that there were theological differences about...
...laughing matter to Fisher. In his quiet, casual way, he has rendered a devastating dictum on the subject: "There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian . . . The rest of the world are amiable non entities...