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...REVIVAL OF RELIGION?...
Ellenson drew a distinction between this position of “Liberal religion?? with the Orthodox Jewish position that the Scripture is the literal word...
...Women comprise half of the undergraduate student body but this demographic group—cutting across lines of ethnicity, class, and religion??lacks visual representation of its contribution to Harvard. Consequently, institutional memory loses a long and rich tradition of female scholarship here, a tradition to which current students are never exposed. In contrast, students are reminded on a daily basis of the celebrated history of Harvard men—portraits, statues, names of buildings and other iconography laud nearly four centuries of male success at Harvard. Yet, at the same time, the Radcliffe name is becoming...
...Science can’t disprove religion??I look at philosophical arguments to do that. But it’s heartening as an atheist to see what people construe as the ‘spirit’ in purely naturalistic or scientific terms,” she said...
What, then, is the role of the university is this dangerous situation? The university is a place where claims to truthfulness are rigorously tested and where the results and the evidence are published. Science and history have roles to play in testing the empirical claims of religion??in evaluating the evidence for whether Jesus existed, whether he was tried and executed, whether the New Testament contains his teachings, whether he ever set foot in Jerusalem or entered the Temple, what role Jewish groups and Roman leaders may have played in his trial and death. Historians should assess these...