Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, God is the answer to the question implied in human finitude; but if the question is posed in the context of the threat of non-being that is implied in human existence, God, says Tillich, "must be called the infinite power of being which resists the threat of nonbeing. If anxiety is defined as the awareness of being finite, God must be called the infinite ground of courage . . . If the notion of the Kingdom of God appears in correlation with the riddle of our historical existence, it must be called the meaning, fulfillment, and unity of history. In this...
...Critics. Switzerland's Karl Earth, the only other system builder among the leading contemporary theologians, completely rejects Tillich's coupling of existential question and religious answer. God did not wait to be asked, maintains Barth; he spoke and acted, and the whole twelve long volumes (in progress) of the Barthian system are based solidly on the record of what he said and did-the Bible. To Barth the Biblical message is "thrown like a stone" at man, not accommodated to his existential agonies. Tillich's "Unconditional" term for God, Barth has called "a frigid monstrosity...
...Four hundred men are married, 53 still bachelors (not all of the 510 answered every question); 317 have gained weight and 162 have thinning hair, but only 19 are bald. Beatniks and arctic explorers seem poorly represented; there is only one beard and one mustache...
Payroll Pay Dirt. Then, still plugging away at his list of freshmen Congressmen with relatives on the payroll, Trimble struck pay dirt when he called Mrs. Randall Harmon on a hunch. He hit on precisely the right question: "Incidentally, where is your office?" Mrs. Harmon's answer: "Why, on the front porch." An Indianapolis reporter later wrote that Harmon was so enraged by Trimble's story that he waved a pistol and vowed: "I figure on throwing the fear of God into that Vance Trimble...
...Hilary's need for affection overcomes even her terror of the "Devil." When she meets him again in a field beyond the Downs, she smiles in welcome and he invites her to his trailer. The last part of Novelist Bawden's melodrama is dominated by the cliffhanging question of what will happen to Hilary in that trailer...