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Love, Mercy & Respect. Though retaining his Jewish faith and socialist belief, Gollancz has here written a fiery, almost transported plea for a return to the ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...
John Calvin, who was barely 27 when he sent to the printer his famous Institutes in 1535. But, says McNeill, he never substantially altered his doctrine thereafter. An ardent humanist before what he called his "sudden conversion" to Protestantism, he carried his love of truth for its own sake over into his religious teaching: "If we hold that the Spirit of God is the one fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it appears, unless we wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination...
Delegates were mindful of the recent fracas in Unitarian ranks over the ousting of Pastor Stephen Fritchman for following the Communist line too closely in his editing of the monthly Christian Register (TIME, May 26). There had also been critical murmurs from "theist" Unitarians against the ultra-humanist views of President Frederick May Eliot's administration. But the agenda proved too crowded for these controversies. Indeed, there was too much to say and too little time in which to say it. Once as many as five delegates contended for the microphone...
Ivor Armstrong Richards, Lamont University Professor at Harvard, lecturer on literary criticism. Doctor of Letters. Citation: "Versatile and provocative philosopher and man of letters; the chief exponent of Basic English; a roving humanist whose teaching illumines many fields...
Religious humanist Hesse is a novelist and poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...