Word: judaeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decidedly inaccurate to refer to Unitarianism as "a sort of vague Christianity without Christ." Although its early historical roots were in the Judaeo-Christian heritage, Unitarian religious philosophy has increasingly become a process of the rational-ethical-universal-mystical, and especially of the humanistic. These many tentacles represent a strength, not a diffusion...
...topic of the conference, "Science and Absolute Values," is another reason he agreed to participate, Kety said. He said that the possible existence of absolute truth and goodness is important since many people believe that ends justify means, rather than the Judaeo-Christian belief that some things are morally forbidden...
...familiar Judaeo-Christian God, Miller asserts, is indeed dead. In Miller's view, he died much as Prometheus warned that Zeus would die: he usurped power over the other gods whose existence nourished his own. This happened, says Miller, because Christian theology, particularly after the Reformation, became dogmatic and narrow. Miller argues that Jesus himself was neither. He proclaimed that there were "many mansions" in his father's house, and in teaching he used a variety of parables. Complains Miller: "Christian theology has reduced those parables to a few creeds, all of which say the same thing." What...
...Stendahl plan ignores all religious interests outside the Judaeo-Christian axis. In one of the four minority reports filed in protest to the committee findings, Constance W. Williams, a member of Stendhal's Committee, called for an "equitable distribution of resources among the various groups represented in the University." This goal is at the heart of any move toward pluralism. The use of Memorial Church facilities by three groups will do nothing for all those ignored...
...Esalen Institute: "The essential lessons Don Juan has to teach are the timeless ones that have been taught by the great sages of India and the spiritual masters of modern times " Author Alan Watts argues that Castaneda's books offer an alternative to both the guilt-ridden Judaeo-Chns-tian and the blindly mechanistic views of man-"Don Juan's way regards man as something central and important. By not separating ourselves from nature, we return to a position of dignity...