Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruits of intellect unsupported by faith are not necessarily richer life but more often superciliousness, fastidiousness, or even lacklustre and despair," President Pusey told the Class of 1957 yesterday...
...advocates of religion seem to be saying that it is time to cease ignoring the "indestructible and inalienable minimum of faith which humanity cannot give up because it is necessary for life," Pusey said...
...Faith Is Active...
Pusey also attributed the new interest in religion with a concern for getting over the "entirely unacceptable notion that faith is a matter of indifference." He affirmed that faith is "something given, not won" and called for inquiry into what it is, a study of its manifestations in history and religious literature, and a quest for its "life-giving influence...
What men are trying to do, Pusey asserted, is "not again to set up something which will be restrictive, but rather to refuse to be restricted by a secular orthodoxy...." He admitted that he hoped the new " intellectual interest in the role of faith would not stop at this point ...., but lead to a questing about the object of faith in an effort to give meaning and content to the word...