Word: davenant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn, this vision of spiritual (rather than merely social) brotherhood did not lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist doctrine, that Reason is the handmaiden of Faith, has never really been overthrown." Where does such faith-with-reason lead America? Daven port did not live long enough to give more than clues to an answer. One clue lies in his feeling that the conflict between old-fashioned American individualism and the modern pressures for the welfare state need not (perhaps should not) be resolved, but kept in equilibrium: that this very balance...