Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation of the con structive wisdom and beauty of faith." To contribute to that renaissance, Author FtilSp-Miller has selected five saints (of the 25,000 generally recognized by Roman Catholics) and made their five lives into a book, The Saints That Moved the World (Crowell...
...Intellect," is enthroned among the saints as "the first great teacher of rational thought." His Doctrina Christiana, "the earliest pedagogical textbook of the Western world," supplied "the foundation on which the first European universities were built." From his teachings arise the famed Protestant tenets of "the pre-eminence of faith over good works, of grace over reason...
...Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France), the twelve-year-old Norwegian party was built on deep foundations. Before the war it could gain no more than two seats in the Storting. Last month, in the liberation election (TIME, Oct. 22), it won seven. Resurgence of the Lutheran faith in war-weary Norwegians and the application of religious principles to politics accounted for the difference...
...destroyer is sunk in the Pacific, but Morey reaches an island held by a small U.S. and native guerrilla group. He has a chance to be sent home on a submarine; but having found new faith in the rugged decency of simple men, he begs to stay on and fight by their side. By their side he dies fighting...
...Returning servicemen are coldly undenominational. They are hungry for religious faith; but denominational hair-plitting only confuses and bores them...