Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial balloon" proposal he had launched in the council's magazine for an interfaith "International Geo-Theological Year." Just as the International Geophysical Year is studying the physical nature of the universe, said Dr. Dahlberg, an International Geo-Theological Year might study "the relation of the human soul to the cosmic order." Scientists, philosophers and theologians of all faiths should be invited to exchange views on such questions as: C| "Do we live and move and have our being in God, or simply in a kind of electric plasma...
...produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death." There is the additional difficulty of specific references to fire. "To many it appears that for God to plunge the soul into a sea of fire [suggests] a vindictive God who takes joy in torturing His enemies...
Jesuit Gleason meets this problem by suggesting that the agony of hellfire is not something created by God at all, but rather that it grows out of the damned soul's eternal tension between love of self and love of God-and is much like the pain of schizophrenia. "We know that in this life the schizophrenic personality suffers greatly. Such a man believes that he is himself and someone else, [and] riven by this conflict he suffers as though devoured by himself. Now it is possible that the soul in Hell could feel this inner division with regard...
...very nearness and glory of God's love, rather than Divine wrath or vengeance, Father Gleason suggests, that tortures the damned soul. "Just as the sun without alteration to itself nourishes one plant and burns another, so the fiery love of God without change in God rejoices the saints in heaven, purifies the souls in purgatory and tortures the souls in Hell . . . The violence of the soul's tension in Hell is simply a tribute to the enormity of God's goodness...
...sharp Jewish businessman in / Can Get It for You Wholesale, can still stamp the imprint of a heel on the printed page better than anyone else. But, though he knows his way around the jungle of a conniving city, he gets swiftly lost in the desert of the human soul. George Hurst's redemption is so pat and implausible, the world he aspires to so trivially empty, that readers may wish that Weidman's heels had no need to become heroes...