Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down With Blame. "I see no alternative," said Mowrer, "but to turn again to the old, painful but also promising pos sibility that man is pre-eminently a social creature, or in theological phrase, a child of God." Future treatment of the emotionally ill. suggested Mowrer, "will, like Alcoholics Anonymous...
Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, ";confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments" But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before receiving Communion. Confession, he felt, should be voluntary, and Christians must be clear that their absolution comes only from God...
Ministers feel that the new popularity of confession is a response to the anxieties of the modern world, and a symptom of the growing Protestant shift from services and sermons to personal pastoral care. "We do not emphasize the form," says one pastor. "It must not become a routine." Many...
An Old Turkish Custom. Early the following morning, while McCuistion was still being held incommunicado, Turkish police picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing...
A part-time critic of TIME has a confession to make. As one of the central actors in the drama that has unfolded at the House Education and Labor Committee during the past six weeks, I must say that the most honest and accurate reporting which has appeared anywhere in...