Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never got the Reformation and we never had Protestantism! He proceeds to indict the churches on the charge of interpreting religion in terms of an out-worn theology--the literal interpretation of the Bible. He is ready to agree that theology is essential to religion, but wants a constant religion and a progressive theology! His Religion, he describes as Faith in Life itself,' 'a sovereign insight into Life's meaning,' whatever redeems...
Washington's Religion...
...most inexcusable of your blunders is that which calls Washington a Deist, and likens him in this respect to Thomas Paine, then goes on to insinuate that Washington lent his influence to the perpetuation of religion in spite of this assumed fact, because he was an "able politician." This is to brand Washington a hypocrite. There are many pages in his public addresses and messages which no Deist could sincerely have written. Take, for example, the passage in his message to the governors of the States when disbanding the army, June 8, 1783, beginning "I now make it my earnest...
Roscoe Pound, Hon. '20, Dean of the Law School, will appear tomorrow afternoon as the second speaker in the Graduate School Society's open course in Religion at the Phillips Brooks House...
Dean Pound, who will talk at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall on "Religion and Law," has exchanged places with Professor W. B. Munro A.M. '99 on the schedule of lectures. Professor Munro spoke last Sunday on "Religion and State" when Dean Pound was away at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Colorado at Boulder...