Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their surprise two days ago that Ireland's Ron Delany, the world's greatest indoor miler, was risking immediate suspension by withdrawing from tomorrow night's Cleveland K. of C. Track Meet. Delany's action, according to John McCarthy, persident of the meet, constituted "a flagrant breach of faith--the type which the A.A.U. cannot countenance without taking strong action...
McCarthy held that because Delany had signed an entry blank he was under obligation to appear. Cleveland officials declared that Delany's "breach of contract" would place him under automatic suspension. Delany defended his withdrawal, saying that he had acted "in good faith." A Shakespeare major in Villanova's graduate school, he gave the pressure of his work as the reason for his action...
...Fence? What does Theologian Tillich have to offer to the millions of Protestants who believe themselves secure in their faith and their churches? He offers at least three things: 1) an impressively designed theological system that tends to order and clarify Protestant ideas, even for those who do not accept Tillich's interpretation; 2) a kind of shock treatment for the complacent, who are apt to be driven, by Tillich's unorthodoxies, to re-examine the basis of their own faith; 3) a passionate, contagious concern for the human condition and for faith as an essential element...
...himself"? Protestantism, says Dr. Tillich, cannot offer such a world view: "it must fight from above this level to bring everything under judgment and promise." This cannot be done, he says, simply by asserting theological truth, or by going back to the Reformation's theme of justification by faith alone. It can only be done by, in effect, driving man to the painful extremity of accepting the ultimate threat confronting his existence, and yet to affirm life in the face of this very threat. "The one thing needed-this is the first and in some sense the last answer...
...genius lived in the persons of the statesmen-Sir Philip Sidney, Cecil and Raleigh-as much as in Shakespeare, who celebrated the glory of Elizabeth's monarchy. It was also a time of all-embracing religious conflict; when religion then walked not only the hairline of individual faith but the tightrope of policy. Catholic and Protestant were "in a state of mind near insanity" over the tortures they inflicted on each other...