Word: rationalistic
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...last days before his death-a death that, as Cory describes it, had some of the majesty of Socrates'. He was racked with pain from cancer of the stomach, unable to eat or drink. When Cory murmured about "the peace that passeth all understanding," the old rationalist shot back: "If it passeth all understanding, it's simply nothing. I have no faith in a blind, cosmic feeling of peace." In his last moments, Cory asked him if he was suffering. "He replied in a voice so small that it seemed to come from a long distance...
...RATIONALIST. Lepp has considerably more respect and sympathy for the kind of atheism espoused by many modern scientists who deny the existence of God after making a reasoned study of the universe; he sees that "rational agnosticism is connatural to certain very positivistic forms of intelligence...
...spirit shown by the world's bishops. Holy Office Consuitor Antonio Piolanti, Rector Magnificus of the Lateran University, warned that "there are rationalist theologians going about Rome seducing innocent foreign bishops," and ominously told one of his classes: "Remember, the Pope can be deposed if he falls into heresy." In the preparatory stage, Cardinal Ottaviani had rejected any help from the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Said an Ottaviani aide: "We don't need you. We judge you." Rome's right-wing press joined in with frequent attacks on the direction of the council...
...Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends,'' wrote Francis Bacon to Lord William Cecil, "for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...
...chronicling the great events that convulsed the century-the religious wars, the confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again that, better than any other historian living, he understands how to dis till the flavor of an age from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent...