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...writers] thinks that a realistic view of human nature easily 'excuses personal and individual inaction as well as acquiescence in the idea of dictatorship.' . . . Most of the continental resistance churches were informed by a dialectical theology. . . . It is stupid and malicious to deny the moral and religious heroism of continental Christianity in fighting the evils of Nazism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Neo-Orthodoxy: Round Two | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Nicholas E. Young, mother of Private Rodger Young whose heroism at New Georgia has been commemorated in ballad: "The body is nothing, the spirit is everything, and I feel that Rodger's spirit is always with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Spirit Is Everything | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Died. Rear Admiral James Duncan MacNair (retired), 71, senior ranking Navy Chaplain, holder of the Navy Cross for heroism under fire (with U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood in World War I); after long illness; in Brookline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Last week Pastor Perkins had won new fame. His second novel, Antioch Actress, a chiaroscuro tale of early Christian heroism v. degenerate Roman paganism, was made the April choice of the Religious Book Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Best-Selling Preacher | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Last week Joseph T. O'Callahan, S.J. (now a full commander assigned to the new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt) received for heroism aboard the Franklin a hero's reward: the Congressional Medal of Honor. Added lustre: never before had a chaplain won the medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father O'Callahan's Medal | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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