Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, however, he observed that the Divinity School is not interfaith in the usual sense of the term. "We do not think of our faculty as requiring official representation of Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Hindu or Buddhist groups." Students should nevertheless be cognizant of the traditions of these religions, he said...
...Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civil Order, a newly formed interfaith group of clergy and laymen, held its first national conference, announced "two. paramount aims: 1) To stress religious truth in the preservation and development of genuine democracy; 2) To unite all believers in God in the struggle between the free world and atheistic Communism...
...University of Miami.the human-relations department concentrates mostly on "Interrace and interfaith tensions," has some 400 students a year working in the field. After reading in the subject and learning various fact-finding techniques, students go out to examine such problems as the library and recreational facilities for Miami Negroes...
...relation of Brooks House to Memorial Church. He suggested that Memorial Church, under the new Minister, when he is appointed, be a center for Protestant Christianity in the University--combining preaching and counseling, chapel, and other specifically Christian work. Brooks House, on the other hand, would be an interfaith center for Jew and Gentile alike, with emphasis on social service. Hastie also hopes to start specifically non-sectarian debates and forums on various problems of religion...
...Roman Catholic doctrine, "outside the church, no salvation," has been the subject of many a theological treatise, and has wrecked the mood in advance of many an auspicious American interfaith gathering. Catholic theologians explain that it must not be overliterally interpreted. Non-Catholic Christians, they say, if "invincibly ignorant" that Catholicism is the only way to salvation, can save themselves by leading good lives; for this makes them, whether they know it or not, Catholics "by desire...