Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are two great principles in the world. One is Christianity. Not just Christian doctrine, but the basic principles of right & wrong, of clean living, of kindness to one's neighbor. The other great principle has many names. Freedom, liberty or democracy-whatever called-its essence is the right and dignity of the individual. To achieve that principle has taken centuries of revolution and bloody battle. In Japan, this principle came so suddenly-and so quietly-that most observers fail to see the scope of the tremendous, bloodless revolution that has been wrought here since the start...
...years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital, she had asked her neighbor, Mrs. Kowalsky, to take over...
...they "exclude the possibility of redemption and a new life in man's social existence, and confine redemption to individual life." The structures of society cannot be perfected, but they can be improved. And this the Christian must try to do as part of his responsibility for his neighbor...
...understand, from the standpoint of the Christian faith, that man cannot complete his own life, and can neither define nor fulfill the final mystery and meaning of his historical pilgrimage, is not to rob life of meaning or responsibility. The love toward God and the neighbor, which is the final virtue of the Christian life, is rooted in an humble recognition of the fragmentary character of our own wisdom, virtue and power...
However, one sunny day, I was handed my unconditional release, and my enervated neighbor mumbled an inarticulate farewell as I walked from the ward. I was then obsessed with the desire to learn the name of this modern Rip Van Winkle. I glanced at the chart on the head nurse's desk...