Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese have been worn out by mass brainwashing sessions, public-accusation meetings, collective confessions, and endless "struggle" conferences in which relays of Reds upbraid backsliders. As a result, harried citizens develop what one expert calls "double selves, an outer, superficial self that conforms to Communist demands, and an inner, moral self that remains hidden...
Since all this parallels the problems of teaching U.S. slum children, the book's solution may be applicable far beyond the backlands of New Zealand. The author argues for what she calls "organic teaching"-a way to spur nonlearners to read and write by bringing their inner feelings into the tasks...
What worked were words that touched upon wellsprings of inner life, especially fear and sex. To build a "key vocabulary," Teacher Ashton-Warner daily asked her tots, "What word do you want?" Among the words children chose: love, kiss, darling, ghost, bomb, alligator, police. Each child took home "his" word, printed on a big card, learned it without effort. Using these "one-word captions of the inner world," the kids went on to write a daily autobiographical story. Sample: "Mummie got a hiding off Daddy. He was drunk, she was crying." Or: "My Father got drunk, and He drank...
Barth argues that Protestants have paid too much attention to the "conversational contacts" with Rome that the council has opened up, and too little to the spirit of inner renewal that is visible in much of present-day Catholic theology and Biblical scholarship, as well as in the new directions in worship proposed by liturgical reformers. Far from being a "static power group," Rome, like Protestantism, lives "by the dynamics of the evangelical Word and Spirit," and Catholicism today may well have in it more "spiritual motion" than the Protestant churches...
...church's mission to the world" is the misleadingly bland theme of the Toronto Congress. Evangelism-on the religious, political and cultural frontiers of the world-will not be the delegates' only concern; they will be deeply involved with inner searching and selfcriticism. "This is a desperately difficult time for Anglicanism," warns the Rev. Roger Lloyd, a canon of Winchester Cathedral. "The historic definition of Anglicanism needs renewing...