Word: judeo-christian
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Jackson made it clear he was reaching out to Jews, offended by his references to "Hymie town" and his slowness to repudiate the anti-Semitic rantings of the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. "We are much too intelligent, much too bound by our Judeo-Christian heritage . . . much too threatened as historical scapegoats, to go on divided, one from another." His face glistening by now, the Baptist preacher closed on an upbeat note. "Our time has come. Our faith, hope and dreams have prevailed. Our time has come." The emotional night ended as delegates, black and white, clasped hands...
...formal practice of confession goes back thousands of years in Judeo-Christian tradition. Jewish Scripture and liturgy include ancient prayers of confession of sins, and the most solemn period in Judaism's ceremonial calendar is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. In Catholic Christianity the sacrament reached its classic form by the 11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired...
...leader, while the Unitarians honored the "religion which Jesus taught 'as love to God and love to man.' " A compromise hammered out during the merger eliminated the name of Jesus from the association's statement of principles, which were said to be "immemorially summarized in the Judeo-Christian heritage as love to God and love to man." In the 1970s, "man" was changed to "humankind...
...much liberating imagery as repressive to be found in the Bible and the Constitution; these sources of wisdom and inspiration need not remain the preserve of the misguided far Right. It is up to the Left to find a way to fit the democratic ideals of Americanism and Judeo-Christian justice into its broader program. There are already encouraging signs in the widespread Catholic opposition to the arms race and intervention in Central America, and in the rhetoric of such anti-New Right groups as People for the American Way and Americans for Common Sense. But liberals need to move...
...neoconservative, in a spirited (and spiritual) new defense. Reflecting on the "new order" in America that European-influenced moral philosophers have long ignored, Novak argues that democracy and a free economy are the natural embodiment of the ideals of liberty and individual worth that are the foundation of the Judeo-Christian tradition. "Such hope as we have for alleviating poverty and for removing oppressive tyranny-perhaps our last, best hope-lies in this much despised system," he writes in The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Simon & Schuster; 433 pages...