Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene is a shabby Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Mineola, L.I., and the tenth man is a young lawyer with no faith in religion, or even in life itself, who has been brought in off the street to make a quorum for morning prayers. Except for an aged rabbi, even the elderly Jews who show up largely lack faith; they come out of habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums...
...Empty Jar. Gnostic thought existed long before Christ, but it adapted itself so well to Christianity that the subtlest and toughest Christian minds worked overtime to combat its combination of mystery, myth and spiritual snob appeal. When orthodox Christianity triumphed at last, the writings of the Gnostics were suppressed so thoroughly that most present-day knowledge of Gnosticism relies on the anti-Gnostic polemics of the fathers. The Thomas Gospel will widen knowledge-and speculation-about Gnostic doctrine...
This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The author, an Orthodox Jew and a bestselling novelist (Marjorie Morningstar), provides a clear, simple guide to his faith...
...council, representing some 171 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox denominations, emphasized that it was making no official decision. (Said one official: "We are no Vatican; we issue no edicts.") But in Geneva, the council secretariat authorized publication of a study group's report that reached a dramatic, clear-cut conclusion: "Limiting or spacing of children is a morally valid thesis . . . There appears to be no moral distinction between the means now known and practiced-whether by the use of estimated periods of fertility [i.e., "rhythm" system], or of artificial barriers to the meeting of sperm and ovum [i.e., contraceptives...
Rabbis and Israeli government officials crowded around the open doorway as an elderly man was wheeled into the second-floor operating room of Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox Shaare Zedek Hospital, where Mosaic law is observed so strictly that nurses are forbidden to write on patients' charts on the Sabbath. The sheet-draped patient: Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji, 60, a descendant of Shinto priests. The surgery: circumcision, as part of his conversion to Judaism. As the mohel (circumciser) lifted the knife, he repeated the ancient formula: "Blessed be the Lord our God who has sanctified us and commanded...