Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leslie Weatherhead's statement [May 18] that death, like birth, need not be left to God, seems to overlook the fact that God never issued a commandment, ''Thou shalt not assist at birth." I'm scurrying now to my Old Testament to reread the commandment I once misread-you know, the one that goes, "Thou shalt not kill, without the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee...
...hand is to deal with issues which arouse division. To teach at most about religion thus seems a necessity in a college which desires to maintain diversity without strife and to provide a haven for many points of view. Buttrick recognizes this necessity. In his course on the New Testament, Humanities 124, he is concerned with showing the influence of Biblical "categories of thought." He states that "a university is for understanding. Our concern is not to say whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher...
...word God without reserve or embarrassment," in President Pusey's Baccalaureate phrase,--and who profess a belief in what that word signifies--do so in a sense that is far removed from both the letter and the spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenistic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter...
...Henry A. Murray, professor of Clinical Psychology, highlighted the annual Phi Beta Kappa Society exercises yesterday, calling for "a new testament for a new age." Murray delivered the keynote oration before an audience of about a hundred members of the society and their guests in Sanders Theater...
Murray noted with alarm the "flood of discontent and self-depreciation these days" and the "mythology of the mass media--a mythology of pride, greed, and envy." To deal with this deplorable situation, Murray urged the formation of a new mythology, to be embodied in a "truly new testament," a kind of Bible for modern times...