Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifted religion so far above the realm of creed and sect one can feel its pull and power...
...Minister's Job. Methodist laymen reserve their highest disapproval (98%) for the minister who "seems pessimistic and defeatist concerning the achievement of the goals of the Christian Church." Explains Sociologist Leiffer: "This does not mean that Methodist men and women desire a Pollyanna religion or preacher. . . . But they expect their religious leader to have . . . a belief that good eventually will triumph, and a consequent assurance and patience even in the face of disappointing conditions...
...National Institute of Arts and Lecturers elected to its ranks last week William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus. Professor Hocking will return to the University next term for the first time since his retirement in 1943 as William James Lecturer...
...From Religion: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, will discuss the U.S. spiritual role in the world. He has proclaimed it thus: "America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot...
...mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world not to confirm the mighty in their seat but to exalt the meek and the humble. . . . The Syrian slave-immigrants who once brought Christianity into Roman Italy performed the miracle of establishing a new religion which was alive in the place of an old religion which was already dead. It is possible that the Negro slave-immigrants who have found Christianity in America may perform the greater miracle of raising the dead to life. With their childlike intuition and their genius for giving spontaneous esthetic expression...