Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Sunday, the Greek Orthodox Easter, the general visited the Greek battalion in Korea, who welcomed him as a vividly remembered friend. He remembered some of them, too. After the inspection, he went to a table where Metaxa Brandy and red-dyed Easter eggs were set. It is an Orthodox custom for two friends each to take an egg and strike them together; he whose egg remains unbroken is supposed to be the better man. Van Fleet tried this with the Greek commander, and there was much good-natured guffawing when the American's egg cracked...
...Basic in orthodox Christianity is the belief that the individual left to his own devices is subject to kinds of behavor harmful to others, and inconsistent with his own true Happiness, as well in this life as in the life to come. The strive to overcome these vices and to replace them with their opposite virtues the Christian finds both an inspiration and a challenge. From the beginning, Christians have banded together to encourage and assist one another in striving, and for the common conservation and use of the means God has placed at their disposal for carrying...
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was the rabbi of a Manhattan congregation at 22, but he was torn between his own theological liberalism and the unbending Orthodox Judaism he preached. "I worked hard," he said later, "to say something in my sermons that I believed and that would also appeal to the people in my congregation." Discouraged, he seriously thought at one point of switching to selling life insurance...
...Best of Human Nature." In 1920, when he began what he calls a "Jewish ecumenical movement," Dr. Kaplan found Jewish congregations in the U.S. split into three major groups: the Orthodox, which demands strict observance of scriptural laws; the Reform, which emphasizes broad ethical concepts at the expense of dogma, and the Conservative, a halfway house between the other two. Although he himself became associated with the Conservatives, Dr. Kaplan has tried to weld the three groups together on a broad basis of "peoplehood" rather than theological doctrine. "It does not matter," he says, "whether the community is Orthodox, Conservative...
This theological freewheeling has brought Dr. Kaplan in conflict with Orthodox rabbis. In 1945 he brought out a new Sabbath prayer book, with the Orthodox prayer book's creed changed to a "criteria of loyalties," emphasizing the congregation's spiritual needs rather than the articles of faith which they must believe. (The old prayer book: "I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher is true, and that -he was chief of prophets." Dr. Kaplan's prayer book: "We want the synagogue to enable us to worship God in sincerity and in truth.") Horrified...