Word: humanisme
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John Barth, college English teacher and a leading comic of the theater of black humor, now makes with his academic robes like Mephistopheles-or perhaps Batman. Out tumbles a gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex, leaping across great tracts of human history. Fascism, Communism, recent wars, revolutions...
"Just Like a Woman" is one of the very exciting things we have to deal with. Natural, seemingly without artifice but for a few lines, this is Dylan's tenderest humanism since "North Country Blues" (Opus 3). It defines with sincere concern and virtual clairvoyance the girl-woman, innocence-experience...
Venom Aplenty. In orchestrating this remarkable account of Germany's rise from defeated enemy to much courted ally, Adenauer's tone is dry and professorial, often lacking in the details of the humanism that his C.D.U. programs espouse philosophically. But there is venom aplenty-directed mainly at the...
The God [April 8] of myth, fear and superstition is dead. The God in whose name many have been tortured and killed is dead. The God who serves as the father figure watching over man is dead. The multiple Gods, representing the multiple religions with their multiple distorted views, are...
In a sense, no Christian doctrine of God is possible without Jesus, since the suffering redeemer of Calvary is the only certain glimpse of the divine that churches have. But a Christ-centered theology that skirts the question of God raises more questions than it answers. Does it not run...