Word: judaeo-christian
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...twelve-member merger commission first came forth with a document stating the new church's aim as "to cherish and spread the universal truths taught by Jesus and the other great teachers of humanity in every age and tradition, and prophetically expressed in the Judaeo-Christian tradition as love to God and love to man." To the delegates meeting in joint session this sounded too specifically Christian, and they voted it down. The amended version read: "To cherish and spread the universal truths taught by the great prophets and teachers of humanity in every age and tradition, immemorially summarized...
...Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect on human life than the normal inhalation of argon. Most of these notions come close enough to Tillich's to be intellectually "shoe," however, and their conformity to the negative doctrines of some of the authorized Judaeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West's religious tradition to appear superficially unbroken...
...Christian idea of education has been so rarely realized, said William Pollard, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and an ordained Episcopal priest, is that the modern Western world has focused on its Greco-Roman heritage to the almost total exclusion of the Judaeo-Christian. A student may study history from the ancient world to the present, "but concerning our Judaeo-Christian stem, he will know nothing of any real, historic, cultural root. [He] will be aware of it only through the fall of Rome and the seamy side of the medieval Church . . . In short...
...great Biblical themes of redemption and judgment in history, of freedom and grace and sin . . . seem strangely vague, far away, and unrelated to the ebb and flow of life and history as he understands it." However much the world "may have retained the institutions and outward forms of its Judaeo-Christian cultural stem, it has well-nigh completely lost the capacity to respond sympathetically and understandingly to that heritage...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill...