Word: humanist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor hero is that stock figure, the liberal martyr, and the locale that stock setting, a Midwestern college campus. He cannot even say that "Karl Marx was the most important man of the century" without being sacked. (He should have been fired for puerility, not subversion.) This humanist hails from New England, but his behavior is strictly late Roman. He weeps a lot, likes to fiddle with flower arrangements, takes barbiturates, has a penchant for sharing his quarters with other delicate young men. Occasionally he reproaches himself in lush metaphor. "You talk like a gelded pedagogue who has never felt...
...Humanist, scholar and dean, for a quarter-century he has worked to ensure that Yale men shall be educated...
...Gospels of miraculous and dogmatic elements, and used new materials gleaned from non-Christian literary sources and from archaeology. Out of such efforts came such portraits as David Friedrich Strauss's Jesus as a Jewish sage, and Adolf von Harnack's Jesus as an ideal ethical humanist...
...Jesus has raised almost as many Christian hackles as the old one did. Non-Bultmannite Biblical critics, such as William Albright of Johns Hopkins, contend that the Marburgers are too skeptical in rejecting so much of the New Testament as unhistorical. Other theologians complain that in place of the humanist Jesus produced by the old quest, the new quest is shaping an existentialist one. Karl Earth grandly dismissed the quest as an irrelevant project...
...critics have never had an easy time of it. In A.D. 403, St. Jerome was sharply criticized by St. Augustine of Hippo for introducing new phrasings into his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate. A critical edition of the New Testament's Greek text by the Renaissance Humanist Erasmus was put on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. With ecclesiastical approval, French police destroyed the scholarly writings of Father Richard Simon, the 17th century's best Biblical critic...