Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a God precisely as described in (a) except that He is absolutely One and in no sense possesses a trinitarian nature...
...believe in a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense Him as a mighty spiritual "Presence" permeating all mankind and nature...
...Except for its crusty conservatives and temperamental radicals, the College remains largely a hotbed of unconcern. Safely perched in the "middle-of-the-road," many of its "moderate liberals" hold fast to their comfortable philosophy of "don't-give-a-damnism." When sufficiently aroused by a crisis--or even by a simple emergency they lean to the Left and lend their silent aid and comfort to the Respectable Radicals...
...explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called 'god,'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense Him as a mighty spiritual 'presence' permeating all mankind and nature...
...Except for the Christian version, all of these views present a God whose substance is so tenuous and vague that, like certain very rare gases, it becomes highly enigmatic to say that He is "there" at all. Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect on human life than the normal inhalation of argon. Most of these notions come close enough to Tillich's to be intellectually "shoe," however, and their conformity to the negative doctrines of some of the authorized Judeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West...