Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...younger generation has rejected post-war cynicism and found a new faith which will carry it to great heights is as lacking in penetration as are his opinions on economics. What the new faith is it would be hard to say. The younger generation is not turning again to religion, Mr. Lindley thinks. It has not even accepted the stop-gap of humanism. For the young man of today is "amoral." Mr. Lindley speaks hopefully of this amorality with a fine disregard for the fact that the term "amoral" can have no meaning at all (unless it means immoral...
Full-bearded Baptist John Everett Clough (1836-1910) scorned religion until he was 22, then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with...
...Missionaries who are to go out in the future ought to leave all their sectarian baggage behind and go out to work for a unified Christianity and a universal Church . . . toward a religion focused upon the vital issues of life for the individual and for the social environment in which the individual lives...
...approach to literature consists chiefly in a theory that all literature is based on certain literary values, such as the values of religion, of romantie love, of the family, and of the home," R. M. Lovett '92, professor of English at the University if Chicago said in an interview recently. Professor Lovett was a guest of the Harvard Liberal Club a few days ago at which time he spoke on the Literature of Revolt...
...literary value that is of primary importance to the present time is the value of revolt. Revolt, rebellion, and revolution have always been important in the making of certain pieces of great literature. This History value may take the form of revolt against religion, of revolt against established forms of government, of revolt against conventional conceptions of the family and the home. The most prolific form of literature based on revolt in our own age is the revolutionary literature of the Marxian movement. An acquaintance with this literary activity is important to every...