Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 20 years of vigorous rule, Pats gave his country on Jan. 1 a new democratic constitution. It promises democratic rights to the nation's 1,100,000 people (88% of them Estonians), guarantees minority rights to Russians (8%) and Germans (1½%), disestablishes the church (most Estonians are Lutherans...
...other city in our land whose mayor has come forward with such a proposal as this?" Last week, at a meeting of Mayor LaGuardia's fund- raising committee, Bishop Manning announced that $52,000 was in hand, part of it a contribution from the head of a church which is in communion with the Episcopal-Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North & South America...
...enter the church. The interior resembles a mosque rather than a church, as a matter of fact it is particularly like the Hagia Sophia.) There are no chairs, which produces a wonderful effect of space. There are also no images. There are only framed sentences on the walls (like those in the Hagia Sophia).† One of these sentences reads: "Do not flatter your benefactor." The same woman who nodded approval before to me begins to weep and says: "Then there is nothing left at all." I reply: "I think that is perfectly all right," but she vanishes...
...seriously whether this kind of 'religion,' which I prefer to call a creed, has not an important function in human society. The substitution has the obvious purpose of replacing immediate experience by a choice of suitable symbols invested in a solidly organized dogma and ritual. The Catholic Church maintains them by her indisputable authority, the Protestant Church (if this term is still applicable) by insistence upon faith and the evangelical message. As long as those two principles work, people are effectively defended and shielded against immediate religious experience...
True religious experience, however, proved salutary for Dr. Jung's patient of the 400 dreams. An intelligent man, the patient believed he was irreligious, but Dr. Jung knew better. The dream of the mosquelike church (preceded and followed by equally revealing dream-imagery) demonstrated an inner approval of the Church coupled with a pagan point of view, to which the woman, "a very important minority"-the anima or feminine side of the man's unconscious-makes vigorous objection. In a subsequent climax-dream the patient felt an "impression of the most sublime harmony," which marked the turning point...