Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presbyterian Bruce Morgan, professor of religion at Amherst College, the age is truly post-Christian; those who dismiss it as just one among many periods of history dominated by nonbelievers "fail to see the uniqueness of our time." He doubts the contention of Harvard's Paul Tillich (TIME cover, March 16, 1959) that ordinary men, beneath their daily concerns, are still haunted by the "ultimate questions" that lead to the Christian answer...
...Missing Bedrock. Morgan concedes that there have always been skeptics. But in the past, there always "remained a substratum of theologically integrated assumptions to which reference could be meaningfully made": monotheism, moral order, afterlife, sin. But modern man has rejected the assumptions, and even when he goes to church, he is deeply infected by doubt. He knows that "for millennia his ancestors lived in an era with other bedrock assumptions than his own, an era which can be called Hebrew-Christian." but modern man "no longer lives in that era, and what is more, he no longer wants...
Christians, says Morgan, must ask themselves what is the meaning of this deeper skepticism in the divine plan, and discover how to speak and act in a time which assumes that God is dead. "But we will surely not learn or be taught if we operate on the assumption that our extremity is less severe than in fact...
...Secular Mood. Presbyterian Charles West, who teaches Christian ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, argues that Morgan has improperly defined the age: it is more post-ideology than post-Christian. "It is not just theologically integrated Christian assumptions which are being questioned by the modern secular mood, but all religions, and even all ideological attempts to give meaning to reality as a whole and man's destiny In it. Salvation by Psychoanalysis, Communism and Existentialism are all fighting the same battle for survival today alongside the remnants of the corpus christianum against the postreligious world...
...petitive situations before," says one big steel executive. "Although this is a tough predicament, we can do it again by pro viding better quality, better service, bet ter technology." ∙OIL. "It is not wage costs between the U.S. and Europe that should be com pared," says Cecil Morgan, Standard Oil of New Jersey's chief of government rela tions, "but unit costs of production; and if you do that you'll see that there isn't much difference." ∙PULP & PAPER. "We want freer trade with Europe, not tariff protection at home," says Crown Zellerbach Chairman...