Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion period will follow Wright's talk, with panels organized to consider Science, Politics, History, Economics, Government, Literature, Art, Philosophy, and Religion...
...that the world had barely missed an intensification of the crisis. On the night before the fateful holdup, one Joseph J. Hall set out on a nefarious enterprise with one Ronald E. Fisher. But when Hall realized that Fisher was trying to make him rob a church, he got religion and called the police: "We broke into a church, but I'm not going through with it." The house of God on East Fourth Street, thus providentially spared, was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America...
...Columbia University's fifth annual Conference on Religion last week. Economics Professor William A. Orton of Smith College spoke a mighty mouthful. Said...
...interested in courses about religion. I do not approve of courses about religion, to which only the few professionally interested students go and learn about religion. Every course is a course in religion, or should be, and any student is a student of religion whether he knows...
...major issues of human existence-he may be plunged into the world of St. Augustine, Grace & Freedom, or into the Reformation, or the ancient tragedies, or medieval economic life-and all this with no more than a kindergarten child's knowledge of the great words and concepts of religion. It is no wonder that history remains a riddle to the ordinary student, and philosophy a dull and mysterious irrelevance...