Word: judeo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxes with such labels as Gold Star and Friends, are not the only puzzle pieces that need gathering and fitting together. There are also human and historical fragments from which scholars are trying to reconstruct the story of the Qumran sect itself-one of the great dramas of the Judeo-Christian tradition...
Your articles about Riesman, Brando and Toynbee have illuminated one of the cancers which is destroying our American society-this cancer being the psychological norm. We are afraid to be different since we might be called neurotic or "crazy." We are afraid to live according to our Judeo-Christian-Buddhist principles since such an infinitesimal number live in this way. I hope your articles have restored sight to the blind...
What is their credo? Fundamentally, it is the common heritage of Western civilization, a Judeo-Christian heritage with which men of all faiths may agree. Their basic philosophical faith may be generally stated as a belief in 1) the fatherhood of God, 2) the brotherhood of man, 3) the essential dignity of man, and 4) the right of the individual to hold and administer private property, subject to his responsibilities to his fellowmen. Christian Democracy began as a Christian Socialism and gradually moved towards center and right. Originally, its intention was to escape the bleak godlessness of both left...
What is the deeper reason for the development of academic freedom as a basic freedom in Western nations? I believe it is basically the same as religious freedom. They are both deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian belief in the dignity of man. The dignity of man calls for respect on the part of everybody, including popular minorities in democracies for the conventional core of each and every member of society. For the average man this conventional core is represented by his religious faith. For the man of science and scholarship, it is represented by scientific and scholarly truth...
...average American, Author Halsey believes, is a double man. Thanks to his nation's moral traditions, the American is still taught as a child "the Judeo-Christian ethic" of "yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness." Then the morally instructed child grows into a businessman to whom "aggression, competitiveness and skepticism" are represented as the only ways of "being on the ball" and "going places." During working hours, the businessman plays to the hilt the role of the "smooth operator." Evenings and weekends, he attempts to revert to the honest, kindly role of principled Christian and loving father...