Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write the precepts of its faith into the inner fabric of a universal humanity. He was surely right, too, when he recognized that the prelude to peace is a war ... It is, indeed, true in a sense to argue that the [Soviet] Russian principle cuts deeper than the Christian since it seeks salvation for the masses by fulfillment in this life, and, thereby, orders anew the actual world we know...
Besides seeking salvation on earth and thereby lapsing into political absolutism, the modern Gnostic as described by Voegelin has another tendency, one that he shares with ancient and medieval Gnostics. Both Greek and Christian thought holds that man reflects the order of the universe (or of God) when he understands cause & effect and correctly fits his means to his purposes in earthly affairs. But Gnosticism, even in earthly matters, substitutes dreams for reason because it disregards the facts of the world that exists, misunderstands cause & effect, and has no luck in getting where it wants to get. Voegelin believes...
...from the conferences which he has given through the last dozen years to students at Oxford. Although he left the Catholic chaplaincy there in 1939 after 13 years, he has gone back regularly to lecture successive generations of students. Ranging in their subjects from "What Is Religion?" to "The Christian Notion of Marriage," the religious essays in The Hidden Stream are a once-over-lightly in the principles of Catholicism, delivered with an easy candor that makes rebuttals, for a time, seem almost as trivial as a few motes of dust in a cozy Oxford common room. Excerpts...
What Is Religion? "We have been treating religion ... as if it were a mere attitude one can adopt towards life. The truth is that the word 'religion' under the Christian dispensation has changed its meaning. It . . . stands for a transaction if you will, for the paying off of a debt . . . Religion in our sense is a claim: the claim which God has upon us for worship of whatever kind, and in whatever currency He demands . . . Don't let us imagine that any code of conduct, keeping our word, or controlling our senses, or being kind towards...
...Brotherhood of St. Andrew, which now has chapters in 14 countries, was founded in Chicago in 1883. It has two rules: 1) the Rule of Prayer, by which members pray daily for the spread of the Christian religion, and 2) the Rule of Service, by which each member tries to guide another into the church, following the example of St. Andrew, who brought St. Peter to Christ (John...