Word: lamprecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rope's End. In Washington, Marine Corps headquarters received a letter from 15-year-old Louis E. Lamprecht, who wanted to join up because "I'm sick and tired of unmilitary life...
...task of covering the heritage of Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism in 93 pages is not an easy one. Mr. Lamprecht, professor of Philosophy at Amherst, has managed to catch the main currents of thought of each but has failed to prove his thesis that cooperation among them is possible...
These three ideas are "pure, friendly, and cooperative"; it is their institutionalized forms which conflict. Professor Lamprecht's answer to this problem is to put all religions on a "Hellenistic" foundation, where moral standards, not supernatural beliefs, determine religions practices...
This is the fundamental weakness of Mr. Lamprecht's solutions. He assumes that a religion can give up these "trappings" and substitute objective knowledge of its rich heritage for a partisan devotion to its cause. But the result of this would be a metamorphosis in the philosophical as well as the practical realms. Neither the "covenant of Judaism" nor "the genius of Catholicism" nor "the adventure of Protestantism" could continue in any recognizable form...