Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Superjudge. Dewart thinks that atheists such as Freud have a point in viewing religion as something that in the past has hindered rather than helped man's self-development. The church, he says, should concede that many of its teachings about God-the superjudge, for example, who mechanistically rewards good and punishes evil in the afterlife-are immature and unthinkable to the modern mind. One key concept that Dewart regards as disposable is the Christian conviction, derived from Hellenic philosophy, that God is to be understood in terms of being...
...power, should it choose to exercise it, to move the Legal Establishment to more than token compliance. It could well take the lead in denying the use of its facilities for hiring purposes to firms that after careful investigation are found to reject applicants on the basis of race, religion, or sex. Harvard could act -- if it wished...
Theologian, Gogarten sees in secularization two separate but related processes. One is a revolt against organized religion, in which ideas and in stitutions that once were Christian have been transformed into totally profane and human phenomena. Education, for example, was once considered an exclusively religious responsibility, and in the Middle Ages, the state was thought to be subject to the church. The deeper meaning of secularization is the transformation of man's relationship to the universe from that of a hapless prisoner of cosmic fate to that of free, responsible custodian of the world and everything...
...GOOD LIFE (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Affluence and religion are the topics for a discussion between Yeshiva University's Dr. Emanuel Rackman, Fordham's Dr. Paul Reiss and Union Theological's the Rev. Henry Clark...
...Reeves Kennedy, the U.S. is really a "triple melting pot," with the true cohesion growing within religious groups. An Irish Catholic is more likely to marry another Catholic (Polish, German or Italian) than a Protestant; similarly, a Protestant Swede tends to marry another Protestant (Finn, Dutch, Scotch, English). In religion and in social relations, minorities still resist amalgamation, although even here the lines are not nearly as sharply drawn as they once were. Besides, the separation is largely voluntary, and characterized by an increasingly cheerful appreciation of one another's differences...