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...alternative disturbs me. In what vein would a member of the Harvard community profane my religious freedom? The Christmas season promotes as much of the sentiments of tolerance, compassion, and benevolence as it does worship for a certain people's saviour. Every occasion is improper for anti-Semitic gestures, but none could be more irreverent. Historically, Christmas has proved an uncomfortable season, both emotionally and physically, when tides of ill will against Jews climaxed in central and western Europe. Now, happily, participants in a secular world, we share the universal message of the Christian holy day. My intruder may even...
DIED. John A.T. Robinson, 64, boldly individualistic Anglican theologian, former Bishop of Woolwich (1959-69) and Cambridge lecturer who scandalized the church world with his 1963 biblical study Honest to God, which argued that traditional concepts of a supernatural God and Saviour were essentially mythical and inadequate in this scientific age; of cancer; in Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England...
This argument fits into the broader theme of the play: can men and women live together as equals? Once the 1001st tale has been told, Sherry is forced to ask for forgiveness and Sharyar renounces his vow and proclaims her the "saviour of your sex" and proposes marriage...
...ground is not intended to come down hard on idealism of students or on the left. He points out that no politics are discussed on stage. Rather Kenney is criticizing the leaders inability to express these ideals and their tendency to "view bureaucracy as a Saviour...
...confessor and the pastor of Warsaw's Saviour Church: "Because the government is absolutely isolated from society, it feels that the church is less dangerous than a legitimate political opposition." But if the church is strong in moral authority, it is hamstrung by the fact that it has no legal standing in Polish society and must constantly engage in a cat-and-mouse game with the state to protect its interests...