Word: dogma
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Also necessary is the revitalization of the Jewish religion, not in terms of dogma but in terms of human experience. Dr. Kaplan has no patience, for instance, with the ancient doctrine of the Jews as God's chosen people; he banishes this from Reconstructionist education with the same gusto that he eliminated a "bloodthirsty" Jehovah who would slay the Egyptians' firstborn...
While the country rang last week with commencement exhortations to cherish the spiritual legacy of the past, the graduating class at Princeton Theological Seminary heard that ancient dogma is a dangerously heavy burden. From the dean of Harvard Divinity School came the suggestion that Christianity may be at death's door, and that its spiritual legacy is more likely to push it through the door than the atheism of the present...
Reason Is Evil. To the romantic temperament, nothing succeeds like excess, and Yeats preached the dogma of excess as an esthetic necessity. He applauded Shelley for agreeing with Blake "that Reason not only created Ugliness, but all other evils." Such statements seem slightly more reasonable when Yeats is placed where he belongs, with the first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating...
...hierarchy. Last week at Vienna, the stresses were present in Khrushchev's mind. Molotov, a hard-line Stalinist, had lost. But for Khrushchev there was the longstanding and probably more formidable threat from another Stalinist, Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who has challenged Khrushchev's dogma of "peaceful coexistence." Some observers credit Mao with forcing Khrushchev into more belligerence than he considered wise in Cuba and Laos. In backward Outer Mongolia, the Russians and Chinese are in active competition (see below). Mao has made it clear that he deplores the Vienna conference...
More than any other man in the Presidium, Polyansky typifies the new generation of technocratic leaders who are empirical in their outlook and have little time for dogma. The party biography supplies him with the best of credentials. He was born in a poor peasant's hut in the Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions...