Word: judeo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University community, the curriculum, and the teaching attitudes offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...
...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 Judeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West's religious tradition to appear superficially unbroken...
...University community, the curriculum, and the teaching attitudes offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...
Hillel provides several informal courses on aspects of Jewish culture and traditions. "Hillel, therefore, should help the students understand themselves as Jews." Rabbi Gold said. "We can hope that the Jewish part of the Judeo-Christian tradition will become a larger part of university curricula, but for the time being it is Hillel which assumes responsibility...
...hurling gangs switched from Jews to Catholics, beat up friars (one was killed) and tried to catch anti-Peronista Father Cucchetti. To his hiding place came a friendly visitor-Rabbi Schlesinger. By last week their friendship had resulted in Latin America's first interfaith union: Movimiento de Confraternidad Judeo-Christian...