Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk of Christian education is, as Pollard suggests, quite fruitless, because Christian education requires Christian educators, and a Christian society. And we have few Christian educators because the Church is no longer talking a language which illuminates problems confronting the Academy. We have no Christian society because Christianity has failed to say and do anything finally effective about science and progress. We can only begin to talk about Christian education after we know what we mean by Christianity, and that word has not had an imminent experiential reference for four centuries...
...other hand, the Churches are trying to create a new Christian order, then the first business at hand is to define that order and forget the educational experiment for a few centuries. What, for instance, is the contemporary world supposed to understand by the Christian use of the word "God"? How are we to take statements about heaven and hell or the day of judgment? When these questions can be answered in ways which move men to live again, then we can talk about Christian education
...administration to the present. In 1940, however, Dumbarton Oaks lost its domestic magnificence and became a part of Harvard University. It was donated to Harvard by its owners since 1920, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, who specified that it be made a center for the study of early Christian and early Byzantine antiquities. To further this end, the Blisses donated their own collection and library as a beginning and arranged a substantial endowment...
...only the focus for American study of Byzantine cultural life, the institution is the point of concentration for exploration of all facets of early Christian and early Byzantine antiquities. These facets are many. Since the Byzantine Empire extended roughly from the Adriatic on the West, the Danube on the North, the Euphrates on the East, and Palestine on the South, students must be able to command not only Greek, Latin, and French, but German, and the Slavic tongues or Arabic depending on the scholar's inclination...
...Committee's second group courses are less certain in purpose. Some, like "Classics of the Christian Tradition," clearly cut or ignore departmental lines. Many others, especially the history courses under Social Sciences, could just as easily be given by a department. Originally these courses were meant as an integral part of the distribution rules under General Education, and the courses which cut departmental lines were conceived in General Education in a Free Society. Now any course in the catalogue is accepted for distribution, and the Committee feels that its courses must only fill some holes. Consequently one could scarcely find...