Word: transcendental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Classical Christian theology holds that a transcendent Creator called life into being out of nothingness by an act of divine will, and governs the universe from outside creation-all-powerful, timeless and unchangeable. But Whitehead argued that a dynamic world could not have a static Creator who was exempt from...
> By a vote of 5 to 2, the court ruled that federal courts may now enjoin criminal prosecutions (but only before indictments) under vaguely worded state laws that have a "chilling effect" on the "transcendent" First Amendment right of free speech. Under a 1962 anti-subversive law, Louisiana had charged...
The World Come of Age. But the greatest challenge to the churches-one that knows no national borders-is secularization. Dutch Theologian Albert van den Heuvel, head of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department, defines the term as "the process of ever-growing independence from any transcendent control...
Not all the radical theologians who want Christianity to travel light are in the seminaries. Two of the most persuasive are consecrated bishops of the Anglican faith: John Robinson, the suffragan of Woolwich, and James A. Pike of San Francisco. In his bestselling (750,000 copies) Honest to God, Robinson...
Though few recognized it at the time, it is increasingly apparent that the U.S. lost one of its best novelists when Edward Lewis Wallant died 15 months ago at the age of 36. His career was astonishing in several ways, the first of these being simply that each of his...