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Word: ministere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the small (three-quarters of a square mile) compounds housing eleven legations, an international force of 400 from eight countries held off some 25,000 wild besiegers for 55 days. A single determined assault would have smothered the defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Affair of Hate | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Before examining the truth of the phrase "renascence," one must first note that it is really quite difficult to say that "Harvard," in the sense of Harvard students, is doing or believing or undergoing anything. Each assumption made from this random poll will be challenged by hundreds, and each analysis...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

One Harvard Square minister characterized student belief as "a general drift of thinking in all, but including a great deal of individual variation." Certainly most Protestants do not exhibit orthodoxy in their religious thinking--they are not afraid to question their beliefs and to abandon many that seem untenable in...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Harvard Protestants Lose Faith Under Rational Impact of College | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Religious questioning actually leads, as many ministers point out, to a type of humanism--Christian sentiment not necessarily entailing belief in God or organized religion. This feeling, most evident among those who attend church infrequently, results from the leaven of the pragmatic, liberal Harvard education intensifying pre-existent doubts. Doubting...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Harvard Protestants Lose Faith Under Rational Impact of College | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Attendance at Sunday morning services does not accurately indicate the extent of religious interest among Harvard Protestants. Only 29 per cent of them attend church weekly, and a mere 20 per cent deemed "active connection" with a denomination essential to religious life. "One can be religious without organized religion," according...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Harvard Protestants Lose Faith Under Rational Impact of College | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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