Word: pietisms
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...Exodus becomes Bingham's image of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap toward the promised land; thus the buckskin-clad immigrant and his family are consciously meant to evoke Joseph, Mary and Jesus on the flight into Egypt. The religious imagery sometimes amounts to a suffocating pietism, but that was America too. It still...
...weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. Speaking to a lawyers' group in Hawaii, Marshall said the document had been "defective from the start." The fact that Marshall is the great-grandson of a slave sharpened his point...
...theology and its related literature, and the world's largest selection of Unitarian Universalist materials, says curator Maria Grossman. For such a small library, the Rare Book Room has an impressive array of manuscript featuring the published and unpublished works of theologian Paul Tillich and literature reflecting the continental pietism during the 17th and 18th centuries within the German Lutheran Church. Most of the rare books are unavailable for undergraduate browsing. However, Grossman says she is more than willing to take the time to show undergraduates the collection...
...cannot dismiss his faith, no one could, for it had been fiercely stripped of any pietism or sentimentality. Even my father kneeling with a rosary in his hands was not a pious sight. His faith had the appeal of war, and the horror. It was a force: manly, gladiatorial. No woman could have approached anything like it, as a woman's inevitably have to. He and God were fellow soldiers. Because he knew what he wanted, he felt entitled to do anything, and was capable...
Aside from the defection of male politicians and the threat from the right, what bothered the delegates most was attacks on "reproductive freedom." Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, a former Texas legislator who is now president of Wells College in New York, accused President Carter of "ringing pietism" for his stand on public aid for abortion, and sarcastically attacked the recent Supreme Court ruling. Said she: "Every case the Supremes have heard of late has resulted in constitutional disaster." Among the resolutions approved by the caucus was one calling on feminist supporters to avoid tourism in the 15 states that have...