Word: functional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students stressed the need for individual students to take responsibility and for the co-op to function harmoniously...
...still doesn't have Monica, but he got a consolation prize from the courts on Tuesday: The Secret Service is one step closer to singing. A federal appeals court rejected the service's plea to remain silent and seconded a lower court decision that if a previously nonexistent "protective function privilege" should indeed exist to keep presidential security tight, it is up to Congress to create...
Luther's doctrine of justification by grace was his solution to two problems. One was personal: the era's Catholic practice presented divine forgiveness and salvation as earned, a function of one's merit. Like many people, Luther was periodically paralyzed by fear that his merit might fall short. He was also angry that the church, as age-old intermediary between believer and God, was profiting from this fear. For a price, the appropriate cleric would perform merit-building practices like prayer, penance or pilgrimage on one's behalf. The sale of such "indulgences" financed many a medieval cathedral. Retreating...
...current effort to settle justification began in the '60s, when Catholicism joined the ecumenical movement. Theologians from both traditions eventually concluded that the 16th century anathemas were more a function of crossed wires than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God. The Joint Declaration, says emeritus Yale theologian George Lindbeck, who helped draft earlier efforts, reflects the conclusion that Catholicism never denied justification through grace; it was simply more focused on the human drama of the transformed sinner than on the exclusively divine origin of his or her transformation. "The two descriptions of salvation...
...forth in the new biography, A Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia Nasar, is a miracle of resurrection. Mindful of that fragile journey, Nash pondered, "But maybe it's not such a great thing. Suppose you have an artist. He's rational. But suppose he cannot paint. He can function normally. Is it really a cure? Is it really salvation?" Consider the tragedy of Michael Laudor, who recovered but was not saved...