Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thankful that the loudest voice is not always the most significant, and we can be reminded again about the ways we contribute to or undermine the relationships among men. Certainly we can correct what we know to be untrue and reserve judgment on matters where the facts are in doubt...
...warm weather fashions have, alas, come pretty close to full circle. Back around the turn of the century, when there was no such thing as warm weather fashions, gentlemen wore their winter suits in summer--and were both correct and terrifically uncomfortable. Then, in the great relaxation of the twenties, correctness and heavy clothing were sacrificed to comfort. By the beginning of the thirties, a man could be unashamedly comfortable and woefully dishevelled in a baggy seersucker suit...
...Barth, theology cannot be free speculation ; it is correct only when it is obedient to what God says. Hence there can be no theology apart from prayer, and no theology apart from God's revelation. The revelation of God is a continuous act: God still speaks to man through the words preached by his church to those who accept Christ. Since this revelation continues within the body of those who witness to God, there can be no theology apart from the church and what it believes. Barth, of course, is appalled at the divisions of Christendom; yet he thinks...
Barth thinks that Marx sincerely tried to correct injustice in industrial society, but he has no desire to live under a totalitarian government. He argues that Naziism attempted to defeat the church by perverting its doctrines with cultural heresies, whereas Communism is an atheistic political system based upon philosophical ideas that must be countered with other ideas. And God, Barth insists, is not an idea, "not a banner for human ideas and intentions. For many people Christianity is a kind of moral, religious and political idea, against what they call an atheistic idea...
...wrong things, and spends his spare time staring wide-eyed at the cops-and-robbers shows on TV. Since McCloskey has never caught anything more elusive than a cold, it's a cinch he can't catch Lyrae, who has been sent from a friendly planet to correct a defect in the moon rocket. Alas, such is interplanetary life, she falls in love with the hero, and with the help of feminine methods that seem to be universally practiced persuades him to turn the moon rocket into ("Captain? H-his voice is changing. No! Th-there...