Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
...Federal Council of Churches, which last week differed from Winston Churchill on the drift of world affairs (see INTERNATIONAL), is the biggest single body of U.S. religious opinion. Its 400 delegates are the nominal spokesmen for some 27,000,000 members of 22 Protestant and three Orthodox church groups. Each church group is represented in the Council by four delegates, plus another delegate for each 50,000 of its communicants. The Council's chief purpose: "to secure a larger combined influence for the churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people...
...delegates of 90 Protestant and Orthodox church groups from 32 nations, winding up their momentous meeting in Geneva (TIME, March 4), were uneasy because they felt that the nations of the world now seem "impotent to deal with the crucial problems of international order...
...give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover in international affairs...
...Lewis' fellow excursionists fail to find Heaven to their liking. Most outspoken: the liberal theologian, a fat, gaitered ghost with a cultured voice and "a bright clerical smile," who clings to his benign skepticism and open mind even in the forefields of Heaven. An old orthodox friend says to him: "We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other facthood...