Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only bloodless metaphysical abstractions to very orthodox people. Whether the Darwinian form of biological theory is ever fully demonstrated or not, says Mr. Bradford, never again will special and immutable creation be found in the mental tool-chests of thinking men. And what Darwin thought of reconciling science and religion is plainly indicated in a quotation in one of his letters about an orthodox admirer: "He says he is chiefly converted because my books make the Birth of Christ, Redemption by Grace, etc., plain to him! How funny men's minds...
...Wise dismisses all superficial explanations of the sharp cut distinction between Jew and Gentile. He ascribes it not to religion, nor to surface racial characteristics, but to an innate emotional feeling present from the beginning in the Jew, strengthened and intensified by centuries of persecution during the Middle Ages. This feeling is expressed in that strong group Jewish clannishness which makes Israel a problem...
...expected that any present day treatment of the Jew would lay emphasis on the quite secondary but popular problems of religion and of Palestine. Mr. Wise's attitude toward the former is an assumption that as theological faith it will disappear along with theological Christianity. Of Palestine, while enthusing over its possibilities as an experimental station for Jewish ideals, the author admits that it cannot solve the Jewish problem as such...
...nothing to the life of the University. He only takes. In a narrow and superficial sense this is true, and it might be applied to the average Jew and the world. But the Jew has made great contributions to the progress of education in general, as he has to religion, economics, science, philosophy, music and a dozen other fields of activity. This same loyalty of his which makes him moderately free spiritually and emotionally of ties binding other people perhaps is partially responsible for the courageous independence so characteristic of Jewish thought. The future then lies in the sane recognition...
...John Roach Straton, a leading fundamentalist from the Calvary Baptist Church of New York City will exchange opinions about the origin of man with Professor K. F. Mather of the University Department of Physiography. The subject of the Symposium is "Science and Religion", a topic of recurrent interest since the Dayton trial two summers...