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...touchstone of these values and concerns for Cox is "liberation;" it is the "plumb stone" by which theology should assess religion. If liberation of humankind is seen as the purpose of Christianity and theology is to serve the purpose of "the faith," then it should recover from its fascination with the "essence" of Christianity (and other faiths) and turn its attention to religion's operation within history...
...Willowbrook during summer vacation. My employment at Willowbrook was strictly accidental--I had no idea that I would work there until I took the job. The two months I spent there has altered my perception of retarded people and in more subtle ways it has rearranged my thinking about humankind in general...
...name of all that is decent and good about humankind I apologize to my friend for the inhuman treatment she must put up with. I hope that it is in her power to forgive us our sins against her. I pray that children like her might not live the same tortured and unnecessary life in the years to come...
...this aeronautical engineer and specialist in communications satellites is not without his poetry. In Childhood's End (1953), the best of his nearly 20 novels and story collections, he pushed the theory of evolution toward a new creation myth, as humankind toddled−with some sadness and a certain lyric mysticism−out of its earthbound nursery toward a higher being. Clarke's best-known work is his collaboration with Director Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001, which viewers left not only humming bits of Richard Strauss but full of wry speculations. Did HAL, the onboard computer, rebel...
...half-hour address, Hesburgh advocated a "world citizenship" as a means "to transcend nationalistic chauvinism." What is needed, Hesburgh said, is a "Declaration of Interdependence" to affirm the unity, equality, and dignity of humankind...