Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worn Hussite Bible was found open by his bed. The upturned page was part of the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, and verses 22 and 23 of chapter 5 had been marked. They read: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." His body was found at 6:20 by a guard on the stone-flagged court 60 feet below his bathroom window...
Western civilization's case history as drawn up by Dr. Halliday shows political and cultural symptoms, too: "social fragmentation," revealed by a rash of class warfare; increasing "intrusion of manifestations of the primitive and visceral," with "love becoming no longer sacramental but excremental"; a decline in religious faith, and loss of man's sense of his origins and destiny...
Bohemia-born Rabbi Wise arrived in the U.S. in 1846 to find the country's Jews scattered and unorganized, and falling away from their ancient faith. For half a century he traveled up & down the land preaching and organizing a new, liberalized Judaism; it laid less stress on traditional forms and observances than on cutting the vital principles of the Old Testament to the democratic measure of the New World. "American Judaism" which he founded is today called "Reform," and numbers 350 U.S. congregations...
...right "That Winter" makes for absorbing reading, jumping from sections of tremendous flavor to impressions and episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office...
Bored and restless, he cannot give his energies wholeheartedly to anything, to his mother's devout faith in the old traditions, though its rituals move him deeply, or to the independence movement, though he is aware that he is consequently left out of much of the life of the people around...