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...concrete applications to existential problems. As it progresses, it will turn more to the questions of the significance of human life and the application of the Christian message to the existential circumstance." It will also be open to the insights of science and non-Christian faiths, even to the humanist values-a deep concern for other men's welfare, an intelligently empirical approach to moral issues-of contemporary unbelief...
...against all dogmatic camps are shrewd: "A Christian says, 'If all were good, all would be happy.' A socialist says, 'If all were happy, all would be good.' A mystic says, 'If all were like me, happiness and goodness would not matter.' A humanist says, 'Happiness and goodness need more analysis.' An existentialist tries to commit himself to what is best of the best philosophy for the given situation...
...recent editorial, you declare that "the generally educated man should be doing nothing less than preparing to organize his perceptions [sic]. He should learn what it is like to put on the scientist's thinking cap, or the behavioral scientist's, or the historian's, or the humanist's." This Thinking Cap Theory, while well presented, strikes me as seriously deficient in its assumptions...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...
...feeble voice foretell the downfall of intellect in this great institution. As long as truth is beauty, Harvard will be intellectual, and where the scholars have thus far lacked of a humanist education has been rather on the humanity side...