Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easily be prayed to, and that is why the Roman Catholic laity have turned for their devotions inordinately to creatures-to the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Similarly, I disagree with the rationalist Scholastic interpretation of the soul and of the nature of man, of the act of faith and the rigid distinction between the natural and the supernatural...
...other hand, the great Protestant theologians are perfectly correct and more satisfying than the Roman Catholics in their statements of the nature of God and of man, and of the meaning of the act of faith. However, they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
Back in Washington, he denied any "lack of faith in the future of the Republican Party ... It has good leadership, good candidates and, by & large, a good program...
Today, midway in a bloodier, more dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...
...understand, from the standpoint of the Christian faith, that man cannot complete his own life, and can neither define nor fulfill the final mystery and meaning of his historical pilgrimage, is not to rob life of meaning or responsibility. The love toward God and the neighbor, which is the final virtue of the Christian life, is rooted in an humble recognition of the fragmentary character of our own wisdom, virtue and power...