Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The church was trying to reduce the ignorance and the pressure that had led millions into a double allegiance to Communism and Catholicism. It wanted to sharpen the issue in the consciences of men. Confusion over this issue had created dangers for the church on both sides of the Iron...
"Ye Cannot Serve." The Vatican was well aware that the excommunication decree might cause some Catholics to leave the church. It had to balance this risk against one it considered greater: the confusion that resulted in two opposing allegiances that could not, in the end, be reconciled.
Such academic lackeydom, says Sir Walter, has reduced the universities to imposing islands of bewilderment in a sea of confusion. A leading symptom of bewilderment: at least three educational traditions are battling for the soul of the modern university, the classical-Christian, the liberal-humanistic, and the technological-democratic.
The Looters. Which of the three traditions should be chosen? Though Sir Walter's heart leans towards the first, his mind rejects all three. Instead, he says, a new sort of Christianization process is needed if universities are to correct the world's confusion rather than merely reflect...
-Sam Goldwyn got his billing in the new enterprise though he had no further connection with it. For millions of moviegoers, this has meant no end of confusion; for Goldwyn no end of publicity.