Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really surprising that the churches should be sounding uncertain trumpets, or that Christians should be insecure as to the meaning and direction of their spiritual commitment. Undeniably, one of the most telling events of modern history has been a revolution in the relationship of religion to Western civilization. The churchgoer could once take comfort in the fact that he belonged to what was essentially a Christian society, in which the existence of an omnipotent God was the focus of ultimate meaning. No such security exists today, in a secular-minded culture that suggests the eclipse rather than the presence...
...that can be reduced to an articulated set of principles. In an age of ecumenical breakthrough and doctrinal pluralism, sectarian particularities of belief seem largely irrelevant and even a little quaint. What is important is not the doctrine of predestination, for example, but the mystery of man's relationship to God that lies behind it. A Christian must accept the Incarnation-but there is room for differing interpretations of Jesus' unique relationship to God. The Resurrection is, as St. Paul insisted, the cornerstone of faith; but how one defines this unique defiance of death is of less moment...
...Although much of Avatar is dull and boring, it is playful in tone and has a social value, for it deals with issues of concern to youth, such as the relationship between sex and love," Beye said...
...case of the HPC and the CEP, this relationship has worked well; in the case of the HUC and the Committee on Houses, it has not. In either case, however, more student-faculty cooperation would be fostered if representatives of both groups actually sat around the same table talking to each other...
Freudian Art. Considerably less well known than pop art's debt to Dada is the seminal influence exercised by the surrealists on U.S. abstract expressionism. The relationship has been obscured until now, partly by the abstract expressionists themselves, who kept their early surrealistic canvases out of sight. The confusion was compounded by the fact that the original surrealist manifesto of 1924 envisioned two different techniques for applying Freud's then radical theories...