Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis' remarks in "Faith & Outer Space" prompt me to wonder if the serpent in the Old Testament might not have been a visitor from outer space...
Next day at noon Batista, dressed in a bathrobe, sipped weak coffee, kissed off the suppression as "a police action." Later he said: "I have enemies, of course, but I am sure the masses are with me. I am a man of deep faith; I believe...
...hope that it will encourage assimilation ethnically and conversion religiously." Disappointment of such hopes has produced violent reactions in the past, Niebuhr points out, as when Martin Luther "thought that the Jews had refused to become Catholic but would undoubtedly accept the purer Protestant version of the Catholic faith...
Christian attempts to proselyte Jews are not only futile, argues Niebuhr, but wrong, because the two faiths are "sufficiently alike for the Jew to find God more easily in terms of his own religious heritage than by subjecting himself to the hazards of guilt feeling involved in a conversion to a faith, which, whatever its excellencies, must appear to him as a symbol of an oppressive majority culture. Both Jews and Christians will have to accept the hazards of their historic symbols. These symbols may be the bearers of an unconditioned message to the faithful. But to those outside...
...with traditional Christianity does not prevent its being used in the most blatantly superstitious manner possible. The fact that there are religious and moral ideals in our Western heritage does not prevent these symbols from being caricatured, so that not only is the symbol itself made ridiculous but the faith behind it is turned into children's triviality...