Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President noted that, during a 37-year career, "I have put the unity of the people first," for "a house divided against itself by the spirit of faction, of party, of region, of religion, of race, is a house that cannot stand." Yet, he con tinued, "there is division in the American house now. There is divisiveness among us all tonight." Said the President: "What we won when all of our people united just must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of our people. And believing this as I do, I have concluded...
...really surprising that the churches should be sounding uncertain trumpets, or that Christians should be insecure as to the meaning and direction of their spiritual commitment. Undeniably, one of the most telling events of modern history has been a revolution in the relationship of religion to Western civilization. The churchgoer could once take comfort in the fact that he belonged to what was essentially a Christian society, in which the existence of an omnipotent God was the focus of ultimate meaning. No such security exists today, in a secular-minded culture that suggests the eclipse rather than the presence...
There is also a new understanding of what Judaism has to teach. After centuries of concentration in Europe, many Jewish scholars are now writing in America. The late Hebrew Philosopher Martin Buber, whose books stress concern for the individual over organized religion, has become a big man on non-Jewish campuses. "In the U.S.," ob serves University of Chicago Theologian J. Coert Rylaarsdam, "there is current ly a great vogue for things Jewish...
Married. Joan Baez, 27, premier folk singer; and David Harris, 22, a peace lecturer; (see RELIGION...
Died. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller, 68 Baptist minister and dean of Harvard Divinity School since 1959; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Miller believed that "religion which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit...