Word: enlightenement
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...viewpoints epitomized by the Jesus Seminar and the conservative Evangelicals are limited by the framework of the Western scientific paradigm. Both are impoverished by their thoroughly literal interpretations of the Bible. Most religious traditions rely on metaphors to enlighten and bring us closer to the source of life, which is generally regarded as unknowable and incomprehensible. Religion and humanity would be better served if academics and religious leaders could provide us with more compelling interpretations of the underlying meaning of Bible stories. LINDA KEYS Madrid...
...This is a shabby book, yet scores of good works by dedicated authors are going unreviewed. There is nothing Irving can tell us about the malevolent Dr. Goebbels that we are not already painfully aware of. Whitewashing Adolf Hitler has been Irving's thing for years. Rather than enlighten people, as befits a historian, Irving has caused almost irreparable harm by giving the extreme-rightist, renascent Nazi and anti-Semitic movements a splendid tool to bolster their hatreds. HARRY CONWAY Middlebury, Vermont...
...anything can enlighten Hollywood, it is the box office. Hong Kong films attract audiences worldwide, and Broken Arrow earned a burly $15.6 million its first weekend. Even a myopic mogul can see that the brisk, visceral Hong Kong style of acting and action could be the shot of adrenaline Hollywood needs to shake off its creative funk...
Rudenstine said Elizabeth P. Fogg's gift "floated down from above." In the 100 years since, the purpose of the museums to "educate and enlighten" has remained the same, the president added...
...lawyers "showboat, even without cameras." Journalists fear that the twin decisions to bar cameras from the Smith and Klaas trials set a dangerous precedent. "The O.J. thing is an aberration," says Wade Ricks, a CNN field producer. "Trials can be handled in a thoughtful manner so that they instruct, enlighten and entertain." And Jane Kirtley of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press maintains that had the public not seen the shaky prosecution case in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the subsequent acquittal would have provoked an outcry. "[Trials are] the public's business," she says...