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Word: musts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...differences between inculcating any type of belief and discussing religion in the same critcal spirit with whch philosophy is taught. White claims that teaching religion in any meaningful manner involves teaching a particular religion. Since the non-sectarion college is not prepared to do this, he argues that is must confine its instruction to teaching about religion, which "no more constitutes teaching people to be religious...than teaching about Communism amounts to propagating...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that his belief is one which is tremendously meaningful, but who must demur from advocating...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...Tillich, then, a University must by its very nature transcend mere secular considerations; it is an institution dedicated to matters of ultimate concern. For teachers with less of the Tillichian "vision," however, the questions of religion in education appear more controversial, for they are bound to earthly considerations of sect and creed...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...nineteenth century liberalism. President Pusey is evidently a sincerely devout man; and with the issue of faith so important in his own thinking, resolving the tensions between the role of a secular university embracing diverse beliefs and what he believes to be the central truths of human existence must be especially challenging...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics they become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

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