Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen paraphrases the parable of the Pharisee (Luke 18; 10-14), to dramatize the main point of his new book, published last week-Peace of Soul (Whittlesey House...
...reason of God's existence, but he feels that many a harassed, scatterbrained modern man may be "too confused to grasp them." So Author Sheen begins his book where the readers of self-improvement volumes seem to feel most at home: the realm of psychology. "If the modern soul," he writes, "wants to begin its quest for peace with its psychology instead of with our own metaphysics, we will begin with psychology ... If the modern man wants to go to God from the Devil, why, then, we will even start with the Devil...
Dominion of Satan. Much of psychiatry, Sheen argues, only gives man a false sense that all is well with him, when in reality things could not be worse. The psychiatrist's patient may indeed gain peace of mind, but the Christian gets something far better-peace of soul. "There is a world of difference between [them]. Peace of mind is the result of bringing some ordering principle to bear on discordant human experiences; this may be achieved by tolerance, or by a gritting of one's teeth in the face of pain; by killing conscience, or denying guilt...
...peace of soul is "born of the tranquillity of order, wherein the senses are subject to the reason, the reason to faith, and the whole personality to the Will of God. The true peace ... is deepened, not disturbed, by the crosses, checks and disquietudes of the world, for they are welcomed as coming from the hands of the Loving Father. This true peace can never come from adjustment to the world, for if the world is wicked, adjustments to wickedness make us worse. It comes only from identification of one's own will with the Will...
...Find God . . . Right in There," screamed the bannerline, and the curly-haired little girl in the ad pointed straight at the title, The Lawton Story, "A Picture That Does Something to Your Soul." As the film went into release last week, the two live-wire Ohio promoters who made it were confident that religion would serve them as well at the box office as sex has done since...