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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But from the contradictory statements about the Deity which appeared on this questionnaire, one suspects that to these Harvard respondents, this spiritual Presence simply allows them to state whatever comes to mind about Him, and not to develop any meaningful image of God in their own minds. God is what...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

This sort of pantheistic, almost Tillichian deity, leaves opportunity for one to think and do whatever he wishes in respect to God. For if nothing can be affirmed about Him, everything may be said of Him, as Tillich notes, and everything one says will have symbolic truth. It requires, of...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

All this is fine for encouraging students to develop an independent religion for themselves in which they can find fulfillment and self-transcendence, the criterion which all meaningful religions must fulfill. And if the religion which students have found for themselves at2

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Such a view of university teaching is held by Christopher Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Guest Professor of Roman Catholic Studies. Dawson states that "It is healthy to extend examination to one's faith," as the University demands of the undergraduate. Presumably, such a strong Catholic as Dawson sees questioning as...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Divorces Preaching from Pedagogy Dominant University Attitude: Commitment to Non-Commitment | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Demos admits that the relativism offered at Harvard may not be a universal panacea, in fact may be unhealthy for some minds. "I assume that Harvard students can take it; they are supposed to be tough intellectually. On the whole for Harvard students, who have time to reflect, the period...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Divorces Preaching from Pedagogy Dominant University Attitude: Commitment to Non-Commitment | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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