Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Litchfield has made it clear that he wants to make Pitt nothing less than one of the top six universities in the country. His ambition has proved contagious. "Ever since he came," says one facultyman, "the university has been in a ferment. There is a terrific amount of soul-searching going on. People are looking at themselves in Litchfield's mirror...
...Soul Sleep." William Miller never subscribed to this face-saving concept, but many onetime Millerites from many Protestant groups drew together around...
...fact that Parry O'Brien has "consecrated his life to the task of tossing a 16-lb. ball of steel farther than anyone," that he warms up for a contest by "firing himself with hatred" (has he read 1984?), that he fortifies his soul in various mystical ways as if shotputting contained "the secret of the universe," is a source of inspiration for all nonathletes...
...Adventists. Fundamentalism-the powerful, conservative wing of U.S. Protestantism, which is solid in the Bible Belt and has grown increasingly influential elsewhere in recent years-has long regarded the Adventists as un-Christian cultists, riddled with strange heresies and fringe fantasies that make them dangerous company for the soul. But last week one of the leading organs of Fundamentalist opinion in the U.S. reversed that position. The monthly Eternity, which has an influence among Fundamentalists far beyond its 40,000 circulation, told its readers: "It is definitely possible, we believe, to have fellowship with Seventh-day Adventists...
They acquired other special doctrines. Notable among them is that of "soul sleep"-the idea, held at one time or another by such Biblical authorities as Martin Luther, William Tyndale and John Wycliffe, that at death all men remain "unconscious" in the grave, only to rise for judgment on Resurrection Day. (Orthodox Protestants and Catholics today read Paul as meaning that the afterlife begins immediately at death.) Seventh-day Adventists also hold that after the Last Judgment impenitent sinners, and Satan with them, will be annihilated. But orthodox Christianity continues to interpret Christ's words, "These shall go away...