Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presbyterian Bruce Morgan, professor of religion at Amherst College, the age is truly post-Christian; those who dismiss it as just one among many periods of history dominated by nonbelievers "fail to see the uniqueness of our time." He doubts the contention of Harvard's Paul Tillich (TIME cover, March 16, 1959) that ordinary men, beneath their daily concerns, are still haunted by the "ultimate questions" that lead to the Christian answer...
...Secular Mood. Presbyterian Charles West, who teaches Christian ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, argues that Morgan has improperly defined the age: it is more post-ideology than post-Christian. "It is not just theologically integrated Christian assumptions which are being questioned by the modern secular mood, but all religions, and even all ideological attempts to give meaning to reality as a whole and man's destiny In it. Salvation by Psychoanalysis, Communism and Existentialism are all fighting the same battle for survival today alongside the remnants of the corpus christianum against the postreligious world...
Phenix of Columbia-a onetime Quaker turned Presbyterian, an Army chaplain turned meteorologist, a physicist turned reverend, appears equally confused about the technique inherent in leading children to avoid "a gnawing sense of meaninglessness" in their adult lives...
...Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found that no first-rate history of Yugoslavia exists, Kennan decided that the embassy should write its own, one chapter per officer (his own assignment: medieval Serbia). Always the intellectual, when his turn came to conduct Sunday services at the nondenominational embassy church. Presbyterian Kennan spurned the canned sermons used by his officers, instead delivered a dissertation on "Religion as a Historical Force...
Premature Genro. Almost all of Ed Reischauer's life has been a preparation for his present task. He is the son of a Presbyterian missionary who taught philosophy for 25 years at Tokyo's big Meiji Gakuin University and, with his wife, founded Japan's first school for deaf-mutes. Asked why he did not become a missionary, Reischauer grins...