Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soul. And by soul, Jung means not just a psychiatric psyche but the old-fashioned kind that might even go to heaven. He is an unabashed user of the word "spiritual," and a strong believer in the practical utility of conceptions like God and the Devil. Unlike the orthodox followers of Sigmund Freud, who attribute most of mankind's mental troubles to the sexual conflicts of infancy, Jung maintains that the religious instinct is as strong as the sexual, and that man ignores it at his peril. Though his ideas cut freely into areas traditionally assigned to the mystic...
...beat. The school was founded in 1927 when Bob Jones Sr., a veteran evangelist, decided that the "sawdust aisle" of the camp meeting was really just the beginning of a Christian education. With $25,000 in contributions and savings, he set up a college designed to be "uncompromisingly orthodox and definitely and spiritually evangelistic . . . to witness for and win people to the Lord Jesus Christ." He had 88 students...
Spanos is finding things a bit tense on Sundays, when he attends Los Angeles' Greek Orthodox Church. Charles Skouras is also a member. "At church recently," Spanos says, Skouras "called me a racketeer and yelled that I was trying to get rich off him. I told him: 'Why, you have always been one of my heroes. There's nothing personal in this. I don't wish you anything but the best of luck...
...coming along slowly but surely. So far, delegates heard, 47 Unitarian and 22 Universalist congregations have voted on the plan, have ratified it in every case-most often unanimously. Frederick May Eliot, longtime president of the Unitarian Association (and a cousin of Poet T. S. Eliot), predicted defections" from orthodox Protestant churches "on a great scale." If Unitarians and Universalists could welcome the defectors to a United Liberal Church, "our days of living in a corner would be over...
Since Harry Emerson Fosdick's days as minister, the congregation of Manhattan's Riverside Church has proudly represented a "Christian unity in miniature inside the Church." The 3,447 members include almost every variety of Christian background, from Presbyterian to Greek Orthodox. The largest single group, the Baptists, account for only 20% of the total. Last week Riverside's congregation voted to push their Christian unity further forward. Without sacrificing their official affiliation with the American Baptist Convention, they applied for membership in New York's Congregational Church Association...