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Outmoded Triumphalism. "To put dead churches together," warned Blake, "to unite dying or faithless bodies, is not to produce a union in obedience to Jesus Christ." Thus he argues that "we must be against any church union that is established at the expense of truth"-any union that denies the insights of "our several traditions." Equally deplorable would be union undertaken in a spirit of "outmoded triumphalism"-seeking to dominate the world rather than serve...
...give birth." She submits to sterilization at her husband's urging, only to learn that he has got another woman with child. Her pumpkin shell bursts. Alienated from husband, family and self, she flees into a brief affair, at last learns to accept her husband as flawed, faithless, tender, selfish and, for her, inevitable...
Match, the gambler, may have killed his possessive mother-or was it his indifferent father? The doctor may have pushed his brother over a cliff, or did he strangle his mistress? Eugene, a crane operator at a construction project, thinks he stabbed his faithless wife; on the other hand, he may have dumped a load of iron beams on his foreman, whom he suspected of being her lover...
...peculiar irony that the House's faithless revolt should come just at the time when the Executive branch is beginning to understand the nature of foreign aid. The revolt is especially unexpected because the Congress--even though it rejected Mr. Kennedy's plea for longterm borrowing authority over five years last summer--had appeared to be educating itself to the newish concept of "sustained assistance...
...article on faith and the scientist [June 29]: there is an unwarranted assumption that science deals in faithless fact and that religion traffics in factless faith. The quote from Dr. Van Ness sums it up perfectly: "Any time religious beliefs come into conflict with the things we learn about the world, we must modify the beliefs." Any number of the scientific concepts we accept today may be simply convenient schemata that impose order upon the experiences we have collected so far. They may have little or no relation to "reality." The suspicion has been growing among many scholars during...