Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...material strength to protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...
...find that Lindbergh's Christianity has a chilling, impersonal, antiseptic quality. "We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Lao-tzu, the teachings of Buddha," he declares. To Lindbergh, science "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition." Once science has helped mankind to separate "the truths of God . . . from the dogma which surrounds them ... we still have the possibility, here in America, of building a civilization based on Man, where . . . leadership rests on the respect and confidence it instills in others, and whose standard of life is the quality of life itself...
Last week, 700 professional philosophers from 25 countries assembled in Amsterdam to amass what truth they could. The occasion was the tenth International Congress of Philosophy, which met in the fern-draped auditorium of Amsterdam University. Its theme: Man, Mankind and (driving home the point) Humanity...
...that the divine Presence of which they had become aware while their Master was with them in the flesh had come back to them, and . . . that this experience . . . could come to anybody anywhere through the story of Jesus and their witness to its meaning . . . This was something new in mankind's knowledge of God. It could not have come if Jesus had not lived. It all depended on Him. And yet it was different from the experience of knowing Jesus in the flesh-not less, but greater, deeper, more universal, more transforming...
...Temple was doing what none of his predecessors since the breach between Canterbury and Rome, had done. Nonetheless ... he was fully convinced that for the cause of the solidarity of all Christians and the good of mankind his imperative duty was to establish contact between himself and the Pope. He was inspired by the eager hope that the action he was taking would open the way for official and effective cooperation between Roman and non-Roman Christians in all matters that did not involve dogmatic principles and historical conflicts which divide Christendom. The way being opened, he felt immediate steps...