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...strict letter of their own creed, some of the least likely people in the world to hold a convention are the followers of famed Analytical Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (TIME, Feb. 14, 1955). Mostly professed introverts, they look disapprovingly on the modern world's passion for extraversion, "togetherness" and "other-directedness." But last week, 45 years after Founder Jung broke with Sigmund Freud, the Jungian school held its first international congress. The locale, inevitably, was Zurich, Jung's lifetime headquarters. There, 120 of the faithful gathered in the university's auditoriums for technical sessions on such topics...
Hose on Hell. The Witnesses' creed is based on what they regard as utter obedience to the Bible ("God's complete word of truth"). They accept the Biblical prophecy that Satan will be defeated in the cataclysm of Armageddon, followed by eternal life for the righteous. Other Christians share that belief, but sharply disagree with the Witnesses' assertion that, as the only true followers of the Bible, Witnesses alone will be saved...
Religious freedom is one of the fundamentals of the American creed. But how does religion fare in the free society of the U.S.? This week four scholars-Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic-deal with the question in a new study sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. * All express a surprisingly common concern: U.S. religion is in more peril than U.S. freedom...
...positive thinking" and "official Washington piety," says Dr. Miller, the justifications are "sincerity" and the vast ''numbers of people who respond favorably." What Americans are driving toward "is a shallow and implicitly compulsory common creed ... It is epitomized in the patriotic-religious pronouncements of the President and the Joint Chiefs' effort to formulate an ideology ('militant liberty') for us all." It is "a religion-in-general, superficial and syncretistic, destructive of the profounder elements of faith...
...believe that Russia would ever resort to brinkmanship. The U.S. could resign itself to a long summer of Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down-and had not even decided which course was more desirable...