Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophy is limited by politics on one side, it is met on the other by metaphysical and religious issues. Is God separate from the world and above it, or is he present in every part of it? Religion's end, like that of politics, must be unity of the universal and the particular, through the adoption of entirely new kinds of theology. But Unger can offer no further insight into religion, because God, if he exists, has not revealed himself. The book ends eerily: "But our days pass and still we do not know you fully. Why then...
Lloyd Randolph, an official in Boston's division of the EEOC, said Tuesday the Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII provisions give any person who feels unfairly dealt with "by an employer because of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, has the right to file a charge with the EEOC...
Although much of the dialogue is of this simple nature, the stream of consciousness and diary passages of the novel are very elegant in their prose, though occasionally a little too literary. The diary of Alpha, a primary school teacher who married Martin Neumiller, discusses the philosophy of religion along with her new school marm duties. Yet the portrayal of women is highly sensitive and the pattern of symbols in the novel, particularly in the discussions of time and the land, is rich and complex...
...most Jews the argument became moot in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist and imperialist ideology imported from Europe. The Jewish answer is that today this is a distinction without a difference: attacking Zionism means threatening the very existence of Israel...
...Establishment at Harvard is NOT always Trinitarian Protestant, as he seems to believe. Harvard supported a Unitarian Church instead, for a significant period in its history, and has in general supported the majority religion of its membership. But at this time, THERE IS NO MAJORITY RELIGION at Harvard. The Protestants who run Memorial Church and who worship in it are a minority religion, just as are the 3000 Jews who make up Harvard's Jewish congregations in the course of a year...