Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Roosevelt, noting that German Pastor Martin Niemoller had arrived in the U.S. on a lecture tour (see RELIGION), promptly piped: "I understand that Dr. Niemoller . . . was against the Nazis because of what they did to the church, but that he had no quarrel with them politically. ... I cannot quite see why we should be asked to listen to his lectures." Blurted the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, sponsor of Pastor NiemÖller's tour: "The record clearly shows that he repeatedly spoke against political aims of the Nazis as early...
...beautiful name of Sören Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted philosophy of religion is off beam for positivist, social-minded Americans; 3) his thought is tough going...
...entirely new courses, none of which has ever been previously offered in the University. This combination of something borrowed and something new yields a field of concentration which offers possibly the broadest area of knowledge in the University, as it runs the gamut from Abnormal Psychology through Primitive Religion to Political Behavior...
...Mays, head of Atlanta University's Morehouse College (for Negroes): "I would tremble for the Christian cause if 50 Negroes were to enter an average local church in this country on a Sunday morning and ask to become members. Fundamentally we are afraid ... to practise the Christian religion...
...says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...