Word: rationale
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Pannenberg speaks from the experience of his youth. Brought up as a Nazi atheist, he fought his way free of Hitlerian nihilism and underwent an intellectual conversion to Christianity. Pannenberg first won renown in the 1960s as a member of the "revelation as history" school in theology. He accused the...
"I don't see how you could really oppose it. It all seems very rational," Waxenberg said.
Instead he modestly offers the varied colors and textures of an age in which the worship of the rational has frequently led to madness.
Given the clear and present danger presented by the producer countries asserting their rights, what remedies are possible? The interventionists question the validity of the economic plans for interlocking ties with the oil-producing countries favored by some Democratic party leaders in the US, by European governments and by some...
But by this time, the world-bending denials were largely ignored, and the pros and cons of intervention were being openly discussed, by large portions of the American press and public, as technical problems of a legitimate and rational option of US foreign policy.