Word: non-christian
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...aptly personalized at a meeting of the council's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. More than 200 churchmen from 62 church bodies and 48 countries showed up to discuss the problems facing the spread of Christianity. Anglican Bishop John Sadiq summed up one of them: "Old non-Christian faiths have become renascent." M. M. Thomas of India pointed out another: a "secular ecumenism" that finds its focus not in Christ but in the brotherhood...
...non-Christian world the difficulties facing the ecumenical movement may seem irrelevant and the church itself an anachronism. But it would be foolish to dismiss the importance of the new spirit which pervades the Christian world today. For as old walls of misunder-standing fall, as love comes to dominate hate, it may be possible that the work of people like Dr. Visser't Hooft will ultimatcly make all men feel closer to one another...
...final significance which Price drew from his text was that, "in the long run, not even the profession of Christian, as opposed to non-Christian, creeds "counts for anything." Faith in Christ is necessary to point the way, he said, but its object is to awaken us to God and his renewing power of love: "We need the particular forms of our faith, but they exist to be done away with...
...gentleness of Dublin may be part of the reason why Professor Donoghue finds so much meaning in ordinary human experience and resents the "super sophistication and concern for extreme" to be found in some of the works of T.S. Eliot and other modernists. These poets assume a heretical, "non-Christian" attitude and imply that the common man and ordinary human experience are meaningless. Donoghue feels that man should be respected for what he is. "There is no need to canonize an ordinary person as this "gives short shrift to the value of human life...
Like Greene, Morin is a Roman Catholic novelist. He has had enthusiastic non-Christian readers who "detected in his work the freedom of speculation which put his fellow Catholics on their guard." But Morin has apparently written away his faith. He now views his successful past as a Catholic writer with distaste. "Long after I ceased to believe myself," he explains, "I was a carrier of belief, as a man can be a carrier of disease without being sick...