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Part of the problem, explained Sociologist Bellah, derives from the traditional idea of belief. From the days of the church fathers, Christianity has tended to equate belief with intellectual assent to a given body of dogma. In Bellah's view, young people today see it rather as a commitment, part of a "quest for personal authenticity" that can take them into Black Power or the Peace Corps, hippiedom or Zen, drugs or sex. Some of these convictions hardly qualify as "beliefs" by any standard, and most of them are clearly not oriented toward God at all. Nonetheless, they...
Heinemann formed his own small party to fight against German rearmament, but West German crowds hooted him down, because of the suspicion that his movement was being subverted by Communists. In 1958, just as the West German Socialists were in the process of dropping their Marxist dogma in order to become a more broadly based party, Heinemann joined up. Winning a seat from Essen in the Bundestag, he concentrated on social issues...
...CENTRAL dogma of this view is that the rebirth of the Left in this country is essentially a product of cultural decay with no real relation to political or social reality. Certainly, disaffection with the cultural debris of our society is one important source of radicalism--the significance of that fact has been a matter of intensive debate, within the Left, and particularly within SDS, for some time now. But in the hands of Irving Howe--and the hundreds of magazine writers who came after him--such a fact is used to prove that a young radical has no concern...
...structure of 20th century religious thought, the works of Ingmar Bergman perch like gargoyles. Their gnostic faith belongs to no known dogma; their acrid doubt is too large to sit in the cool shade of existentialism. The Shame, latest of his grotesqueries, once again prays to a dead God, once again mixes actuality and surrealism, calamity and humor, a fertile mind and an arid soul...
...lost our bursar's cards in Paine Hall could have, and should have, contacted more faculty members directly before the meeting. But I do not agree that we represented, even in part, a group of students who make a "fetish of intolerance," "turn a debatable view of history into dogma," or engage in the "tactics of despair...