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Word: religion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commenting upon the proposal for union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches in the United States, TIME'S religion editor might well ponder upon the difference between mating (which produces merely offspring) and marriage in the Christian sense (which produces a family), and better understand the justifiable caution with which many in both churches approach the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...years of living I have learned to draw a sharp distinction between words and action. I do not often speak of my religion, but my associates know that I subscribe to the precepts enunciated by Jesus Christ, especially in His Sermon on the Mount. In my opinion, however, it is not sufficient for an individual to profess a faith; actions alone mark the believer. During my last trip with the Chinese Communists I carried a copy of the New Testament and read the Gospels daily, with a view to comparing the precepts of Jesus with the pattern of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...rewrite the book, I would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . . in a community of exiles and refugees.*... Economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and cooperative. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man. . . . Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End . . . the transcendent Godhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World Reconsidered | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...Religion in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...question of religion-in-Russia a new voice spoke. It belonged to Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, whose Sunday morning Radio Pulpit (NBC) pulls 4,000 letters a week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Russians in Church | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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