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...Logic of Paradox. Orthodox Protestantism by & large subscribes to a body of beliefs among which are: that man is by nature inevitably evil, partaking of the original sin of Adam; that salvation is by faith alone, that good works are meritorious but not essential; that grace is God's gratuitous benevolence; that the Atonement is the redeeming power of Christ's incarnation, suffering and death; that the end of history will be the Last Judgment...
Like Karl Earth's, his method is dialectic; that is, he sees in paradox not the defeat of logic but the grist of an intellectual calculus-a necessary climbing tool for attempting the higher peaks of thought. The twists & turns of his reasoning and his wary qualifications are not hedging, but the effort to clamber after truth. He knows that simplicity is often merely the misleading coherence of complexity...
...small paradox appears to us. The veteran newsman yearns for the freedom to tell his hard-won truth and save the world. Your college editor, with all the old-fashioned freedoms at his disposal, lots them go; he is just too inexperienced to know and use them. I wish to dust off some old chestnuts for the present editors of the CRIMSON. The world is moving fast and will not wait. Freedom of the press carries with it the heavy responsibility for alert, thorough coverage of the news and thoughtful opinion, a responsibility that will permit no boundaries to effort...
...been called to announce the formation of the Rumanian People's Republic under a tractable five-man "presidential council." It all went so quickly that one member of the new council was not even in town to take his oath of office. Contemporary history's prettiest paradox-a king by the grace of Communism-was ended...
...sole key to salvation; faith alone- not works-justifies the soul and frees it from bondage to the Law and to Sin. But the faithful Christian, though he puts no trust in good works, nevertheless performs them as the result of his faith. Luther expressed this concept in a paradox: "The Christian man is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none . . . [but] . . . the Christian man is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject...