Word: logical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain Father Riquet's success: "Voilà, at last a priest who makes sense. I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane [cassock]. He represents something which we lack in France; he fills a gap because he is able to reconcile logic and faith...
Bipartisan S.472's most earnest, effective sponsor was Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft, who four years ago was the foremost opponent of federal aid to education. Reflecting on that debate, Bob Taft had become convinced that it was not sound logic for the U.S. to let a poor state "do the best it can"-if its best was not good enough. Asked a colleague: "Then the Senator surrendered to facts?" Replied Bob Taft with typical candor: "I changed my mind...
...Logic of Paradox. Orthodox Protestantism by & large subscribes to a body of beliefs among which are: that man is by nature inevitably evil, partaking of the original sin of Adam; that salvation is by faith alone, that good works are meritorious but not essential; that grace is God's gratuitous benevolence; that the Atonement is the redeeming power of Christ's incarnation, suffering and death; that the end of history will be the Last Judgment...
Like Karl Earth's, his method is dialectic; that is, he sees in paradox not the defeat of logic but the grist of an intellectual calculus-a necessary climbing tool for attempting the higher peaks of thought. The twists & turns of his reasoning and his wary qualifications are not hedging, but the effort to clamber after truth. He knows that simplicity is often merely the misleading coherence of complexity...
...rigorously secular mind the total paradox must, like its parts, be "unto the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness." It is not irrational, but it is not the logic of two & two makes four. Theologically, it is the dialectical logic of that trinitarian oneness whose triunity is as much a necessity to the understanding of Godhead as higher mathematics is to the measurement of motion. Religiously, its logic, human beyond rationality, is the expression of a need epitomized in the paradox of Solon weeping for his dead son. "Why do you weep," asked a friend, "since...