Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disquisition last November to the Overseers on "Religion in the Intellectual Life of the University" Tillich concluded: "in many realms of the scholarly work of a university the religious dimension is revealed, independent of a concrete religious tradition." For Tillich, "the religious question is the queston of human existence generally...
...better than did nineteenth century liberalism. President Pusey is evidently a sincerely devout man; and with the issue of faith so important in his own thinking, resolving the tensions between the role of a secular university embracing diverse beliefs and what he believes to be the central truths of human existence must be especially challenging...
Jones also called upon the new alumnae to help pioneer "in the solution of the human, intellectual, and moral problems of the over-developed society, notably our own." This, he stated, is the "task of American leadership" in the contemporary "Post-Modern...
...Most of you will live in huge cities or their suburbs. The pioneering job, therefore, is to make human life livable and rewarding under urban conditions ... we need the insight of the arts, philosophy and religion if we are not to become slaves instead of masters of our own powers," Jones concluded...
...religion. Check the one that most nearly approximates your views. 9 The Church is the one sure and infallible foundation of civilized life. Every member of society ought to be educated in it and required to support it. 201 On the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life, although certain minor errors and shortcomings are necessarily apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel I can give...