Word: nonbelief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humor. As Cox sees it, mirth and festivity involve a certain juxtaposing of past with present, which has the effect of affirming experience. "When one approaches religious faith with a kind of playfulness," he says, "one can't become as anguished and inwardly torn up about belief and nonbelief as has been popular in recent theological literature. For both the Christian spirit and the comic sensibility nothing in life should be taken too seriously. The world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there...
...Khrushchev's farm program. It is 46 years since the revolution, and yet the Russian Orthodox Church still claims 50 million members in a population of 226 million; in addition, there are at least 25 million Moslems, 3.5 million Jews, and uncounted thousands who have been converted from nonbelief by the Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses...
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