Word: immanuel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the period when Jimmy belonged to the segregationist high command, but early this year his daughter Mary Ann, 16, invited him to attend a meeting at her Immanuel Baptist Church, whose minister is intelligent, reasonable, nonsegregationist Dr. W. O. Vaught Jr. "I never asked her about it," says Jimmy, "but I imagine Mary Ann went to him and said, 'Dr. Vaught, you've never talked to my daddy about coming to church,' and he probably said, 'Mary Ann, your daddy is an evil man.' If he did (she's a sweet child...
Last April Dr. Vaught called at Jimmy's store, gave him a Bible ("The first New Testament I ever saw," says Jimmy), read him some verses of Scripture. After a revival meeting, Jimmy was converted, joined Immanuel Baptist Church and broke with his segregationist cronies-but refuses to say whether or not he himself is still a segregationist. "I haven't seen one of those men," he says, "since I accepted Jesus as my Saviour." He also gave up smoking, drinking and joyrides in Cadillacs...
Powerful Sanctions. What causes the difference? One theory, notes Yale Sociology Professor Charles R. Snyder in Alcohol and the Jews (Free Press, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies; $5), was advanced by Philosopher Immanuel Kant: he thought that Jews clung to moderation for fear of incurring censure from the society surrounding them. A more convincing theory, Snyder believes, is the Jewish emphasis on food, "so that 'compulsive' eating is more likely to be selected as a means of alleviating psychic tensions [than] addictive drinking." He cites one psychological study showing that Jewish mothers' anxiety about their children...
From Essence to Existence. "I am an existentialist," Tillich is fond of telling people, and he writes: "Immanuel Kant once said that mathematics is the good luck of human reason. In the same way, one could say that existentialism is the good luck of Christian theology. It has helped to rediscover the classical Christian interpretation of human existence...
...Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church Alliance, Ohio