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...world as implying an attitude of indifference to earthly values are dead wrong, according to Cullmann. But though Christianity does not deny the world, it does not affirm it. either. The complex attitude that places the Christian between the two is what Cullmann calls "chronological dualism." This is "the conviction that, on the one hand . . . Christ the end is already fulfilled, and that nonetheless the consummation is still in the future, since the framework of the present world still endures...
...when the Second Act opens that you realize how grossly this dualism has been presented to you, for the ship's officers who then appear are quite human--and all ably acted. Here the true theme of the play enters, for later, when Billy Budd has killed the lying, all-evil Claggart, almost inadvertently, it is they who must decide whether or not Billy Budd should be executed. This decision represents a choice between justice and maintaining an order by law. It is Captain Vere, the central character of the play, who convinces his fellow officers they must "maintain...
...Dilemma" in the Feb. 11 issue introduces again a topic in which I have become very interested. The four physicians who wish to continue as members of a Planned Parenthood League and, at the same time, practice in a Roman Catholic hospital, seem to believe that their attempted dualism is another plank in the new freedom-of-thought platform. It seems to me that it has exactly the opposite effect, for if a man is firmly convinced of something such as planned parenthood, then he is compromising his individual integrity by preferring to be a passive dissenter in a secure...
...Descartes' most disastrous bequest, says Van Dusen, was his distinction between thought and matter-a dualism which became in Kant the divorce between reality as revealed by faith, and reality as revealed through the senses. The result today is the frightening schism "between facts and values, between the realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than...
...Since 1930 Joad, professor of philosophy at London University, has publicly advocated agnosticism, polygamy, suicide, Manichaeanism, Christianity, rationalism, dualism, pacifism, appeasement, intervention, Oswald Mosley, Socialism, anti-Zionism, gambling, Jane Russell's bosom and better British cooking...