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...told 500 Protestant theology students to be both "slaves and spokesmen'' of Christianity. Said Dr. Visser't Hooft. general secretary of the World Council of Churches and a minister of The Netherlands Reformed Church: "There is a new search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total and unlimited, does not admit others beside it. and you can't be neutral when...
...Kings & Trumps. Arab unity, insofar as it exists at all, exists only against something. Last week events in Syria drove other Arab nations into common concern. One group of worried Arab powers centered around Egypt. Syria as a Russian satellite would rob Nasser of his chosen role as the leader of Arab nationalism, and play hob with all the talk of a Syria-Egypt merger and with the joint Syrian-Egyptian army command under Egypt's General Amer...
...Evans Whittaker, who did not participate in last week's decision. Harlan switched sides with the candid admission that time had given him "an opportunity for greater reflection.'' And Frankfurter, his mind finally made up. voted with last week's majority (but. like Harlan, only insofar as it affected capital cases). That left only two-Clark and Burton-where a year before had stood five...
...view of Jacques Maritain, Catholicism implies democracy.) Neither American Catholicism nor American Democracy is perfect. As in any social process, conflicts will arise. They will not be settled without the conscientious effort of both members to arrive at a solution. The Legion of Decency, and similar organizations, insofar as they represent the Church (and not her individual constituents) must realize that she cannot interfere with the lawful functioning of American Society. American Society must remember that the moral standards of one-fifth of the democratic population cannot be jeopardized. C. Michael Lanphier...
...thrown in, and papers are almost unknown. Something beyond this should be expected of students theoretically beyond the elementary level. Analysis of text alone, however worthy as a discipline, leaves a good deal to be desired in transmitting paideia, for after all, facility in the language is only valuable insofar that it increases the student's understanding of the works written in that language. Because of the comparatively limited span of the classical era and because of its relative cohesion, a sense of unity and relationship is of first importance. This can not be gained by studying masterpieces in isolation...