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About the religious resurgence that is beginning to take place, which may or may not develop within the church, Berger has two "hunches." First, that the currently fashionable Oriental cults will not hold a prominent place in the movement, because they are "too much in contradiction to fundamental themes of...
Taken merely as a contrived symbol, the star would be only a bit of mys- tical sleight of hand, but Rosenzweig clearly meant it to be a demonstration of both ontological truth and an ethnic imperative. The Jews, he says, have been elected to grasp intuitively this intimate structure of...
TO MANY CRITICS cloning is only one of several biological developments that threaten what Paul Ramsey calls "a basic form of humanity": the family. Ramsey thinks that artificial insemination by a donor, which is already fairly common, has opened the door to further invasions of family integrity. In his recent...
* Jews regard circumcision as part of the covenant between God and Abraham (Genesis 17:9-14) and a sign of belonging to the community of Israel. Arabs adopted the practice in pre-Islamic times, have since spread it to all Moslem lands.
-Palestinian National Covenant