Word: nonfaithful
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...rebellious son weds a shiksa. Nonetheless, the number of mixed marriages in the U.S. is at a level that may well threaten the survival of U.S. Jewry as a religious community. The reason: the Jewish partner often abandons his religious practice and raises his children in the faith, or nonfaith, of his spouse...
...FUTURE: It seems obvious to me that the moment has come when man kind is going to be divided (or will have to make the choice) between faith and nonfaith in the earth's collective spiritual progress. I feel resolutely determined to devote myself by all possible means to the defense of the idea of the reality of a progress against every secular or religious pessimism...
...some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicitly, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in nonfaith, a paradoxical commitment to noncommitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century.PAUL TILLICH 'Scholarship as Ultimate Concern...
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