Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While most of the Harvard-Radcliffe differences occur in the areas of religious practice or of family life, rather than belief, there is a moderate divergence on the question of belief in immortality. Although an almost equal proportion believe in "the continued existence of the individual soul," fewer girls are ready to deny immortality. Only 16 girls answer an outright "no" to immortality for every 20 Harvard men who deny a belief...
...believe in immortality, if this is taken to mean the continued existence of the individual soul as a surviving entity after the end of organic life? 77 yes; 128 no; 102 don't know...
...theologizing as one of its most essential modes, and focused on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man had the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a remorseless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of liberal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor...
...near the grave, the mourners silently took their places. In the first row beside the family-Mrs. Dulles, two grown sons, a married daughter-sat the President of the U.S., his face set in sadness, and next to him his wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Earth...
...worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...