Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would all this force really be effective against the will of 3,000,000 blacks, Sir Robert Armitage was asked. He replied: "I doubt it." The sad, familiar communiques had begun: because of the threat of trouble, "security forces had been obliged to open fire," and the casualty lists followed. Force could not make Nyasaland accept the domination it feared from Southern Rhodesia. Many predicted the end of federation. But this was no answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa...
...thus acclaimed is also denounced by some orthodox Christian believers as not a Christian at all and possibly an outright atheist. Faith, according to Tillich. is not belief in God but "ultimate concern." Hence an atheist is a believer, too, unless he is wholly indifferent to the ultimate questions. Doubt is an in evitable part of faith. Sin is not some thing one commits, but a state of "estrangement" from one's true self. "The importance of being a Christian is that we can stand the insight that it is of no importance." says Tillich; the religious...
...Faith & Doubt. Tillich's views of that drama were decisively shaped by Wingolf, a national fraternity of university stu dents, dedicated to combat with Christian principles the paganism of German fraternity life, which was built around the cult of dueling and the cult of getting drunk...
This paradoxical relationship between faith and doubt is a keystone of Tillich's theology. From it he derives what he calls "the Protestant Principle," the necessity of challenging the claim to pure, "unbroken" truth by any institution or church, including Protestantism itself, or even by Scripture. From it he derives his all-important distinction between religious "heteronomy," which is imposed upon the individual, and religious "autonomy," in which the individual continually seeks and hopes to find. The situation of doubt, says Tillich, is "existential"-that is, inevitably part of the predicament in which man leads his human existence...
...course, reluctance of this sort is understandable. It represents quite an upheaval, no doubt, to require acceptance of a credit for a not too sharply defined course given in high school. Other Departments besides English have similar qualms. Yet, unless the Departments give full credence to A.P. credits, the value of the program can never be fully realized...