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Word: passivist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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TIME points up this controversy very clearly: "There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology." Oxnam represents the conviction of the New World that man can "work out his own salvation with fear and trembling" . . . Thank you for featuring the "working" Christianity of Oxnam for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Pentecost | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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