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...German fraternity Wingolf, meaning "hall of friends," was a Christian fraternity of university students. Its motto to this day is Di Henos Panta! (Greek: All things through One, Christ!). Its foremost tenet has been the principle of chastity, followed by the principles of temperance and non-dueling. To say the least, many of us are perturbed by the "achristian" theological meanderings of our fraternity brother and fellow Lutheran, Tillich...
Moment of Revelation. A onetime factory hand born in the slums, Delbecque holds above all to one political tenet: the infallibility of General Charles de Gaulle. In 1946. when De Gaulle first called for constitutional reform, twice-wounded Resistance Fighter Delbecque rushed around northern France inveighing against the constitution of the Fourth Republic. "Actually," he recalled last week, "I had never even read the constitution. I was against it because De Gaulle said...
...Ransom founded the Kenyon Review, one of the nation's best and healthiest literary quarterlies, used it to develop a new idea for literary criticism. Main tenet of the New Criticism, of which Ransom has been a principal architect: hard analysis of text and texture. When the hard analysis has threatened to degenerate into the myopic picking of microscopic nits. Ransom has kept his perspective, helped the pedants to regain theirs. Among the students and faculty members who have studied and taught at Kenyon: Poet Robert Lovell (Lord Weary's Castle), Poet Randall Jarrell, Novelist Robie Macaulay...
...rocket ship, takes a stroll through the celestial parks, and ends up having tea with a green-bearded, triple-bellied inhabitant of outer space? In the Christian Herald, theology-centered Author C. S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis weighs the question, points out that it might challenge a basic tenet of Christianity-man's uniqueness. Inveterate Theologian Lewis, a Cambridge professor of literature and a convert (1930) from well-bred skepticism to the Church of England, states the problem thus: "If we find ourselves to be but one among a million races, scattered through a million spheres...
...stolid, austere Amish farmfolk of central Ohio, education beyond the eighth grade is a waste and a danger; it is enough that a child learn to read, write and cipher. This stubbornly held tenet of their strict, old-fashioned sect runs squarely into an Ohio law requiring children to remain in school until they are 16. From time to time in Amish country, parents have been prosecuted for violating the law, but more often, tolerant school boards ignore the Amish boycott of high schools, or make senseless obeisance to the law's letter by letting Amish schoolchildren repeat...