Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...
...pessimistic: "The terrible perspectives which are placed before us ... have opened the eyes of many of our contemporaries to ... the importance of the Christian tradition. It is not only the physicists and technicians, terrified by their latest results, who . . . are looking out for a new spiritual basis of life, but also the jurists, the sociologists, the psychologists, and . . . the artists and poets. The lowest point of secularization seems to be behind...
...Shameful?" Brunner examines the specific application of Christianity to nine aspects of civilized life: technics, science, tradition, education, work, art, wealth, social custom and power. In putting each in its Christian place, he is not afraid to expose himself to the fire power of experts in the various fields. He tells scientists that there is nothing wrong with their subject except that it has grown too big for its britches. "Science knows what is, it does not know what ought to be ... Speaking in general, science in our day claims more room within the totality of human life than...
Theologian Brunner tells sociologists that the dehumanized quality of modern life is not the fault of technics (mass production, high-speed communications, etc.), but is to be blamed on the secularized, un-Christian men who put technics to work. Here, says Brunner, the Christian church has woefully let men down: "Is it not shameful for the Christian society that Confucian China was capable of suppressing the military use of gunpowder, while the Christian Church could not prevent . . . the development of a war machinery incomparably more dreadful...
Rising at dawn one brisk November morning, Joe York, a middle-aged dairy farmer in Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...