Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become an easy and much overworked word. But to theologians, the possibility-and perhaps imminence-of the world's destruction poses a number of grave questions." In the current issue of the Reinhold Niebuhr-edited quarterly, Christianity & Society, two U.S. theologians struggle with some of these questions. Writes Religion Professor W. Burnet Easton Jr. of Lawrence College...
...According to the New Testament and according to the facts of history, there is nothing in the Christian religion which guarantees the permanence of any civilization. Rather, according to the New Testament, not only are all civilizations under the judgment of doom, but the world itself must come...
...American-Soviet Friendship Council and longtime friend of the Communist Party; Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler; the Rev. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips P. Elliott, a Brooklyn Presbyterian pastor; Dr. Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of Methodism's Zions Herald; and septuagenarian Lutheran leader Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler. Dr. Trexler demanded the company of his personal physician...
...judge by the various commencement utterances ... Americans have only one religion: devotion to democracy. They extol its virtues, are apprehensive about the perils to which it is exposed, pour maledictions upon its foes, rededicate themselves periodically to its purposes and claim unconditioned validity for its ideals...
...Another peril of democracy as a religion is that, without a more inclusive religious faith, we identify our particular brand of democracy with the ultimate values of life. This is a sin to which Americans are particularly prone. . . . There are no historic institutions, whether political, economic or religious, which can survive a too uncritical devotion. . . . But even if our democracy were more perfect than it is ... devotion to democracy would still be false as a religion. It tempts us ... to give a false and idolatrous religious note to the conflict between democracy and communism, for instance...