Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impact depends not on lubricity-the schoolboy crush at the center of the story is idealistic and unconsummated. It is based on Delannoy's deft projection of the human agony behind the cry of St. Paul: "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that...
...short and bushy-browed and looked like a roguish Kewpie doll. Franklin Roosevelt called him "Mr. Common Sense." John L. Lewis tagged him a "poker-playing, whisky-drinking, labor-baiting, evil old man." To most Americans he was best known as "Cactus Jack...
...that U.S. churches have generally demanded equal justice for Negroes, and that white clergymen have been at the forefront of civil rights demonstrations. Nevertheless, says Payton, "I don't think we have yet the concrete actions that clearly suggest that the churches are moving to remedy the great evil of social injustice...
...trying to determine what constitutes sin and sinfulness. An example is psychiatric discoveries about the ways in which man's subconscious drives and fears limit his freedom of choice. "We cannot take away the fact that man is capable of sin and has free choice between good and evil," says the Rev. John Lind, assistant pastor of New York City's Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection-Ascension. "The great theological problem is to determine what our free choices are. With the help of psychology, we are beginning to understand that there are forces at work...
Sexuality is a specific area of moral concern in which psychiatry has helped religion redefine its concept of sin. In the past, Christian moralists almost unanimously regarded fornication as an unqualified evil. Now, some churchmen are inclined to admit that it may be morally permissible, in those rare situations when it satisfies a true need between two adults who fulfill each other. Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of the Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "The whole matter of sexual morality is now subject to a different understanding that comes from psychiatry and ultimately from Freud." The Rev. Richard...