Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accidental agent who evoked new tradition and new standards. He was Opukahaia, taken to New Haven, Conn, by a sea captain in 1809. One day Opukahaia was found weeping on the steps of Yale College, lamenting his ignorance. Sympathetic college students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail for Hawaii in the brig Thaddeus...
WASHINGTON, March 16--Any slash in President Eisenhower's $3,930,000,000 foreign aid program would show "we are weakening in our determination" to oppose mounting Communist pressures, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said today...
Content & Form. The varieties of specific questions that can be asked within the three categories of Being, Existence and Life determine the form the answers will take, but not their content. The content of the answer is established by the data of Christian revelation. But the form in which the revelation is expressed derives from the form of the question asked...
...Bible. To Barth the Biblical message is "thrown like a stone" at man, not accommodated to his existential agonies. Tillich's "Unconditional" term for God, Barth has called "a frigid monstrosity." And U.S. Theologian Nels F.S. Ferré feels that Tillich's vuse of traditional Christian dogma makes him "the most dangerous theological leader alive...
Tillich rejects his critics' "supranaturalistic" view that "takes the Christian message to be a sum of revealed truths which have fallen into the human situation like strange bodies from a strange world." Man, he holds, "cannot receive answers to questions he has never asked." Tillich also considers his system superior to the "humanistic" systems of liberal theology, which derive the Christian message from man's natural self-development and the unfolding of human history. He also attacks the combination of natural and supranatural theology found in Roman Catholicism, with its "socalled arguments for 'the existence...