Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Purest Religion. In his best-known work, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1799), Schleiermacher answered that faith is not based on doctrine or reason but upon man's "feeling of absolute dependence" and what he called "a sense and taste for the Infinite." Man, he argued, could never define or explain God, only his own experience of the divine. To Schleiermacher, church doctrines were primarily articulations of religious feelings, and he scandalized German Protestantism in his early writings by coolly appraising Christianity not as a faith with a unique monopoly on truth but simply as "the highest...
Each of the non-denominational, hour-long programs will attempt to make religion relevant to some contemporary secular issue, organizers John T. McLoughlin '70 and Thomas B. Campion '70 said yesterday...
Actually an autobiography, the book tells of Kerouac's rise (in Lowell, Mass.), his fall (on the high seas), and his moral death and resurrection in Manhattan. As a story, it is nothing much. Growing up, Kerouac accepts his household gods (Breton ancestry and Roman Catholic religion), goes to school, plays football, goes to sea, and comes home shorn of vanity and, one is given to hope, restored to sanity and innocence. The one touch of melodrama is provided by Kerouac's pal Claude who murders an obstreperous pansy...
Primal Crime. In a new book called The Religious Imagination (Bobbs-Merrill; $5.95), Rubenstein presents a historical and psychoanalytical study of how the Jewish religion has been a source of spiritual strength. The focus of his interest is the influences that shaped the Haggada-the body of legend and myth contained in the rabbinical Talmud. Rubenstein accepts Freud's thesis that the God of Genesis actually grew out of guilt felt for a "primal crime," in which primitive men cannibalistically devoured their fathers out of both jealousy and a desire to identify with them; in time, the father image...
Died. Daniel Alfred Poling, 83, Protestant minister and lifelong Christian activist (see RELIGION...