Word: concerns
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...life. Yet to the most thoughtful spokesmen of modern Christianity, these criteria are not only minimal, they are secondary and even somewhat irrelevant. Instead, they argue that faith is not an intellectual assent to a series of dogmatic propositions but a commitment of one's entire being; ethical concern is directed not primarily toward one's own life but toward one's neighbor and the world. The mortal sins, in this new morality, are not those of the flesh but those of society; more important than the evil man does to himself is the evil he does...
...emphasize the first of those commands-and all too frequently, when there was a conflict between the two, it was love of man that went by the boards. But Biblical scholars point out that the New Testament is a very secular book, and there is an unmistakable social concern in Jesus' moral teachings. In Matthew 23, for example, Jesus condemns as hypocrites the scribes and Pharisees who ostentatiously tithe their possessions but neglect "the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith...
...frail and imperfect vessels for carrying God's truth, and are forever in need of reformulation. In the light of Christianity's need to respond to the human needs of the earth, many of these ancient formulas hardly seem worth rethinking. "The central axis of religious concern," notes Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "has shifted from matters of ultimate 'salvation,' and of heaven or hell, to questions of the meaning, necessity, or usefulness of religion for this life." In other words, the theological task is to justify Christianity in this world...
Another Harvard psychiatrist expressed concern last week about another form of student behavior. Speaking to the Maternity Center Association in Manhattan, Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr. said that illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years. He placed a major share of the blame on college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit each other in dorms, have encouraged intimacy both on and off campus, and "are actually giving tacit consent to premarital sex." This "puts an unhealthy degree of pressure on those who wish to curb their natural impulses," he said. But Blaine...
...importance of forecasts varies by locale. In Los Angeles, for example, KNXT's Bill Keene claims that "you can call for fair weather every day of the year, and you'll be 92% accurate." In Florida, where weather is a vital concern to citrus growers as well as vacationers, who delight in hearing how their neighbors are freezing back home WTVT in Tampa airs 70 minutes of forecasts daily. On one occasion, WTVT interrupted Walter Cronkite's Evening News to show five water spouts forming in the bay. In Boston, Don Kent styles his program...