Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would rather appear "irreverent" than unobservant. In your excellent and balanced piece on Humanae Vitae, you have me saying "nobody cares enough about religion these days to want a schism." Interest in religion has been increasing as interest in the institutional church has been decreasing. What I said was that there is certainly not enough interest in organized religion these days to produce a schism...
...Though religion is not by itself a controlling factor in custody cases, the judge emphasized, it is important, especially when coupled with the parents' legally expressed wish. Largely on that basis, he ordered the children returned to their father, with whom, he said, they would have a better chance of remaining Jews...
Demos, who taught at Harvard from 1919 to 1962, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Policy, emeritus. For many years, he taught a lower-level course in "Philosophy from Plato to William James." He was editor of "Complete Works of Plato" in 1936, and author of "The Philosophy of Plato...
What will be the impact of the encyclical? Almost certainly, schism is out of the question unless a strong effort is made by Rome to silence dissent. Said California's irreverent Episcopal James A. Pike: "Nobody cares enough about religion these days to want a schism." In some areas of the church with an extremely conservative priesthood and hierarchy, such as Los Angeles or much of Great Britain, it is probable that there will be countless quiet, unannounced defections from the church. At the same time, there is evidence that many Catholics will simply ignore the encyclical, without considering...
...insure divergent viewpoints, the committee drew on various branches of medical faculties. For good measure Ebert and Beecher got some non-medical types to join the crew; they felt that death was not simply a matter of medicine, but also one for other disciplines, especially religion and law. Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science at Harvard, joined up after Beecher saw him at a conference on the social implications of biology and chemistry, because he felt his historical background would broaden the group. Ralph Potter was pulled in from Divinity School because Ebert wanted a theologian...