Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live with my guilt." To hear this unorthodox theology, ministers from university campuses across the nation come to study at Austin's community in the heartland of religious orthodoxy. They hear God discussed as the "void," and the traditional dogmas of the Virgin Birth, Resurrection and Holy Trinity dismissed as so much deadwood in the lumberyard of faith. Fundamentalists, in turn, dismiss the community as heretical, but the leaders of the group consider themselves to be "in the middle of the Christian tradition." How to Be a Layman. Now ten years old, Austin's community is a radical...
...Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with my son Isaac." On the assumption that no Egyptian can be white. Mrs. Gaillot argues that this passage "surely must mean no playing together in school." Biblical scholars dismiss her interpretation of this and other texts as ridiculously narrow-minded...
...point that I made in my very brief informal remarks was that I had to recognize the great uncertainties as to what the next war would be like. Therefore I suggested that I could not dismiss out of hand all arguments based on "defense" industry claims...
...Presbyterian Bruce Morgan, professor of religion at Amherst College, the age is truly post-Christian; those who dismiss it as just one among many periods of history dominated by nonbelievers "fail to see the uniqueness of our time." He doubts the contention of Harvard's Paul Tillich (TIME cover, March 16, 1959) that ordinary men, beneath their daily concerns, are still haunted by the "ultimate questions" that lead to the Christian answer...
Morganthan, a visiting professor in Government here in 1960-61, reiterated that the successof the demonstration hinged in the caliber of the partcipants. "They must present their case seriously," he warned, "or people in Washington will dismiss it as an adolescent prank...