Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote Saint Paul, to whom God's grace was one of the cornerstones of his religion. In his epistles he referred to charis (grace) 100 times. What is grace? Neither the Apostles' nor the Nicene Creed defines it, and the nature of grace has been the subject of theological controversy since the Church was young. Those who want to hear more about it will welcome a little book, published last week, by the Church of England's Rev. Oscar Hardman-The Christian Doctrine of Grace (Macmillan...
...have been told again and again that Catholicism must insist on the obligation of the state not only to teach religion but to teach the 'true religion.' . . . We Protestants oppose this, not only because the condition of religious pluralism in America makes it quite unfeasible, but also because we believe that monopoly in anything, including monopoly in religion, is a source of corruption. It is a particular source of corruption in religion...
...Protestant Error. ". . . We [Protestants] have lacked charity as much as have Catholics, partly because we fail to appreciate the genuine grace of personal religion within this system of official intolerance. Furthermore, we fail to appreciate the real concern for religious values which underlies the Catholic insistence on religious instruction...
...constitutional fathers quite obviously and quite rightly wanted to prevent the establishment of religious monopoly. ... It is not at all clear that they sought to prevent the state's support of religion absolutely, provided such support could be given equitably to all religious groups. . . . [The] principle of 'separation of church and state' . . . goes no further than the prohibition of the establishment of one religion and the suppression of others. . . . The [effort] to make the separation . . . absolute ... is a reflection ... of the Protestant fear of Catholicism...
...featured creative writing that the publication's distinctive claim to excellence must lie. This time the copy looks good; and it is well above the average in published collegiate work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea...