Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 24 story on the growing number of retreats in the U.S. is most informative and timely. At the Center of Creative Living, 5,000 ft. high in the San Jacinto Mountains, a nonsectarian sanctuary is maintained all year round for men and women of any religious belief-Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, etc. We believe in the need for the self-disciplines of the spiritual life. Apparent miracles have happened in just a weekend, when some man or woman resolves a problem through "listening" to inner divine direction. Some arrive confused and often in real trouble-but leave...
...Protestants (and I do not in this reference include the Episcopal Church) have been speaking of retreats for some time. But they are not retreats in the historic sense of Christian devotional life. The Episcopal Church, with its monks and sisters (as well as devout parish priests), conducts retreats in the only manner in which historic Christianity has known them-in silence...
Britain's dream of sharing a common cake while hoarding a few goodies of her own riled some of the Common Market nations. Fortnight ago during the French debate on the Common Market, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flatly declared that a Free Trade Area which did not include agricultural products was unacceptable to France. The Danes and the Dutch felt the same way. In a less noble tone some continental economists insisted that Britain need not fear the Common Market plan so much since all signatories were equally sensitive to their own farm lobbies and had already built...
...Christian Century, Theology Professor and Baptist Walter Marshall Horton of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology warned a little snappishly that Protestant unity can not and should not be had just for the wishing. "Luncheon clubs, convinced that 'the more we get together the happier we are,' and Hindu philosophers, convinced that all religions are routes to the same destination, can logically support this vague, diffuse type of unity, but Christians cannot. One perennial cause of misunderstanding about the ecumenical movement is that the lay public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill...