Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insanity plea, said the court, "is neither an express nor an implied ad mission of present illness, and acquittal rests only on a reasonable doubt of sani ty at the time of the offense. It is true that persons acquitted by reason of in sanity have committed criminal acts and that this fact may tend to show that they meet the requirements for commitment, namely illness and dangerousness. But it does not justify total abandonment of the procedures used in civil commitment proceedings to determine whether these same requirements have been satisfied...
...worthy intentions, the President's Commission on Civil Disorders made several tactical errors in its report on the causes and cure of Negro rioting - and critics lost no time last week pointing them out. Though its overall findings were well received, there were irate charges that the com mission had failed to condemn those responsible for the rioting last summer, and that the report's Armageddon tone was overly dramatic. But the most damaging gaffe by the eleven-member commission may turn out to have been something far more simple and personal: its disregard for President Johnson...
...stressed the need for a relevant Christianity, and for an avant-garde church that would be "a sign of the emergent city of man." Now Cox feels that the churches are beginning to overstress involvement at the expense of inner religious experience. "Once you transform everything into a mission for social action and lose the intrinsic joy of the spirit of worship, you are in danger of losing both," he says. "You don't really worship and you don't really serve...
...world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there is not a humorous line in his books." Adds Cox: "The recent focus of theology has been on doubt, unbelief, or on the church's mission to the world. All this is very important, but what has been missing is the joy of serving...
...notions about education. The demand for student power, as Tussman sees it, carries "peer-group consciousness" into the absurdity of a "children's crusade." A college, claims Tussman "must remain in its mood, its state of mind and its morality essentially adult-it has a civilizing mission...