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...found myself wishing a less modern setting for this morality play than even imaginary World-War II Illyria. Calling Hugo the "kid" seems awkward, but maybe this reductionist slang is finally invigorating in a play so freighted with meaning. What remains dazzling about Sartre is that he can turn a simple story of political intrigue into a lofty, if verbose, piece a these. Lucy Winslow as Hugo's frivolous wife Jessica stands in obvious juxtaposition to Dorothy Gilbert, the doctrinaire, disciplined party comrade Olga. They work very well as decorative comic factors in the play-its Nora Charles...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: Theatre Dirty Hands at the Loob, this weekend and next | 11/13/1970 | See Source »

...Freud. But Frankl has dismissed Freud's idea that human beings are driven mainly by sexual energy, no matter how broadly defined. Similarly, he rejects Adler's emphasis on power drives and Jung's turning back to vague, ancestral archetypes. He has only contempt for the reductionist, or "nothing-but" schools, which define man as nothing but a biochemical machine or nothing but the product of his conditioning or nothing but an economic animal. What is left? Only, says Frankl, the most fundamental of all human strivings: the search for the meaning of life, or at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: Meaning in Life | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...religious hero to its own liking. To the Enlightenment he was above all an individualist and rationalist who sneered at superstition and fought totalitarianism. The Romantic era saw Luther as a German nationalist, the rebel against Roman imperialism. Turn-of-the-century Christian liberals pictured him as a primitive reductionist who tried to return the church to its apostolic simplicity. Since Luther's f ears,, foibles and physical ailments are amply documented-notably in his own writings, which fill some 100 volumes in the authoritative Weimar Edition-he has provided a wide target for psychoanalysts and playwrights. A successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Obedient Rebel | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Reductionist Pike's case reduces to this: the question is not whether he is right or wrong, but whether he is Episcopalian. His non-transcendent, non-omnipotent, non-Trinitarian, nonChristian, nonBiblical god does not represent a new description of the Christian God, but a new god. As long as he holds such beliefs as a member of a Christian church, he shows himself to be without the character to stand for what he believes without the support of those whom his robes deceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

Instant Theology. Bishop Pike, who unlocked the discussion, is far from being a man talking his way toward atheism, and his reductionist theologizing is seriously intended to help put Christian faith on a surer, sounder footing. What Christianity needs, Pike proposes, is "more belief, fewer beliefs." In the name of this jaunty slogan, Pike seems quite willing to jettison 20 centuries of Christian doctrinal development, if necessary, to preserve and emphasize what he considers the central, essential and irreducible message of the church: God as the loving personal ground of existence, Jesus as the suffering servant in whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heretic or Prophet? | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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