Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus seemed immune to the epidermis epidemic. At the University of Missouri, 35 men dressed only in sneakers, socks and hats streaked through "Greek Town," the fraternity-housing area. Near by, 15 coeds responded by running naked outside their dormitory, and 25 other unclothed girls preened at the windows - all to the tune of the Missouri fight song played by a trumpeter in the crowd of 1,500 gaping spectators. In Columbia, S.C., dozens of nude males and females ran and rode bi cycles round the University of South Carolina student center. In New York City, some 40 Columbia University...
...appetite of the young for religious experience is leading along exotic paths these days-demons and gurus, mandalas and myths. Syracuse University Religion Professor David L. Miller encountered the phenomenon two years ago when he set out to teach a course on ancient Greek religion: his students asked him what application the Greek gods might have to their lives today. Miller mulled over the question while attending a scholarly symposium, where he heard Radical Theologian William Hamilton say that today's students' spiritual search "looks like polytheism," that the young want "total access to all the gods...
...father's house, and in teaching he used a variety of parables. Complains Miller: "Christian theology has reduced those parables to a few creeds, all of which say the same thing." What is needed is an opening up of Christian thought, even to the extent of incorporating the Greek gods. Stories about the Greek deities, after all, parallel many Christian concepts, says Miller, citing as an example the ransom theory of the atonement as an analogue of Zeus' negotiations with Prometheus...
Moreover, although he assails other people's rigidity, Miller severely circumscribes his polytheism by limiting it to the Greek pantheon "simply because," he explains, "willy-nilly, we are Occidental men and women." He fails to consider the psychological utility, for instance, of the richly nuanced popular theology of Roman Catholicism, beneath whose dogma, he concedes grudgingly, may lurk "all the gods and goddesses of the ancient world."* The basic problem of Miller's book is that he has tossed up as a clay pigeon a monotheism that is an arid and abstract doctrine rather than the complex...
...like all his classmates, he seems to be using the writing to help himself understand his current feelings. His favorite theme is that of the warrior without honor in his own country; his chef-d'oeuvre is an intricate tragedy written in verse in the mode of a Greek classic. Liddy tells of a Spartan mother who debates the need for war with her son and finally realizes that she must let him go into battle for the good of the state...