Word: judaeo-christian
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...attitudes toward death is religious belief-or lack of it-in life hereafter. Some clergymen assert that such a belief is all that is needed to take the sting out of death. Others, like San Francisco's Rabbi Alvin I. Fine are more mod erate. "The Judaeo-Christian tradition," says he, "offers a way of looking at death. Religious belief and understanding are definitely helpful in facing death." Psychiatrists, who tend to be agnostics, complain that the clerical attitude generally puts too much emphasis on where a person is going and too little on what he is leaving. Like...
...Abernathy, whom King calls "my dearest friend and cellmate": "The people make Dr. King great. He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people in a most earnest and profound manner. He is a humble man, down to earth, honest. He has proved his commitment to Judaeo-Christian ideals. He seeks to save the nation and its soul, not just the Negro...
Human beings, Rock charged, are "as sexually promiscuous and as hard to satiate as the ape. But sex in the human being consists of that indefinable attribute called love." The natural law of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, he said, demands that this love and the humanitarianism into which it is channeled be translated into responsible parenthood in a society based on monogamy...
...Personal God. Modern man finds it hard to sympathize with the prophets, Heschel argues, largely because Biblical thinking is so alien to his own. Unlike the Greek philosophers, or even Judaeo-Christian theologians of later years, the prophets did not think of God as a first cause or prime mover but as a person; they were unconcerned with what God is, but cared only for what he does and says. Unlike the mystics, the prophets did not express the ineffable glory of God, but spoke of specific situations-the machinations of Jewish foreign policy, or the selling of debtors into...
...merger went through as planned, will go into effect in May 1961 if ratified by the local churches before next May. But just before the 1,000-odd delegates packed up to go home, a third version was voted. Jesus was still out, but "in the Judaeo-Christian heritage" (instead of "in their essence...