Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duties. In mid-December, when the Czechoslovaks sounded out Ankara about accepting Dubček, the Turkish government responded with wholehearted approval. Dubček is something of a hero to many Turks. Because of the extraordinary appeal of Dubček's brand of "Socialism with a human face," the Czechoslovaks could not send him to another Soviet-bloc nation. They apparently chose Turkey because of its established reputation for suppressing foreign political intrigues...
...brethren, you did it for me." Yet secular involvement is an enterprise that brings many unfamiliar encounters; it can profoundly disturb the cleric who comes to it without a theology. For such men, contemporary theologians are seeking to develop a new understanding of the central relationships of human life, and in the process are redefining man, the world and the Multiform Presence that most of them are still willing to call...
...next spring, New York-based Father Baum perceives the promise of eschatology not so much in man's collective history as in each man's psychological nature. The "coming God," as Baum sees him, offers man a special freedom to rise above the determinism of his psyche. "Human life is open-ended," Baum writes. The Word of God is a summons to man to transcend his past, the Spirit is the gift of grace to answer that summons...
...director with her husband R. E. L. Masters of the Foundation for Mind Research, believes that current experiments in deepening awareness by psychological techniques or with drugs (which she does not advocate) are already leading to a rise in what she calls "experiential" theology. According to Houston, the human psyche possesses a "built-in point of contact" with a larger reality that is experienced as divine. As the laboratory "improves upon techniques developed in the monastery," people will increasingly encounter this interior sacrality. Indeed, she claims, "theology may soon become dominated by men whose minds and imaginations have been stimulated...
...itself in a racking finish that leaves the spectator as weary, and in a sense, as degraded as the participants. But it is precisely because of Gloria's inexhaustible drive that the film buckles. The dancers stay up for more than a thousand hours. The hall becomes a human zoo where legs, spines and, finally, minds fail. Rocky extends a typically cynical offer: Why don't Gloria and her new partner Robert get married out there on the floor? They can get divorced afterward, can't they? After all, warns the M.C., "I may not know...