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...Today, the church has ten such groups of dedicated parishioners and their friends who meet for serious religious study in one another's houses. Dozens of other churches in the area have imitatively organized their own small study groups. Such gatherings, says Dr. Pearson, now dean of Andover Newton Theological School, show people "trying to be the church as the church ought...
Alfred North Whitehead--himself an adorable genius--applies that term to James in Science and the Modern World. The aptness of the adjective is beyond question; the the truth of the noun, nearly so. For, though James lacked the light-shattering ingenuity of Newton and the monumental style of Kant, his gifts were nonetheless striking. His writings abound in magnificent arrays of quotable passages. His works teem with provocative insights--too many, perhaps, ever to be fully systematized. But, most of all, James radiates moral greatness. His openness of mind and eagerness to defend underdogs, his freedom from vanity...
...great extent ruled by this abstraction. A second was Science, which tremendously increased modern man's sense of power over nature. But it also humbled him, by producing new forces of destruction, by building computers incredibly faster than his own brain, and by transforming the simple physical concepts of Newton's day into an almost metaphysical dream world beyond his grasp...
...said a group experimental in Mexico last summer had made him" less cynical about the possibility of a utopian society," such as the one described by Aldous Huxley in island. The Mexican experience, he related, prompted the creation of the Newton Center headquarters, where several unrelated persons are now living as a family unit. "This is not a blood-related family," he said, "it is like a family...
Graduated from the Andover-Newton Theological School in 1893, Rev. Oxnard's first pastorate was in Portland, Maine. He has also had parishes in Lawrence, Newton, New Bedford, Rehoboth, Southboro and Boxboro...