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...thorny trails of thought are explored in Christianity and the Existentialists, a new book published by Scribner ($3.75) and edited by Carl Michalson, professor of systematic theology at Drew University. Its eight chapters include studies of Kierkegaard by Theologian H. (for Helmut) Richard Niebuhr,* Spain's Miguel de Unamuno by President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Nicholas Berdyaev by Matthew Spinka, professor of church history at the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Gabriel Marcel by Professor J. V. Langmead Casserley of the General Theological Seminary, Martin Heidegger by Erich Dinkler of Yale Divinity School, and of modern...
...Revolt of the Masses. For the next 25 years José Ortega y Gasset, a small smoldering son of Socrates exuberantly engaged in the circumstances of Republican revolution, held sway over the liveliest minds of the Spanish-speaking world. Disagreeing sometimes with his great fellow philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, he was to be found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper...
...torrential rains of winter; it is a place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding, and the blood of His wounds stains the mother's cheeks as she leans against Him; the Virgin is a real girl. In this country the cemeteries are lonely...
Last week, just before Salamanca's celebration was to begin, a pamphlet appeared in the streets called "Miguel de Unamuno: Greatest Heretic and Teacher of Heresy!" Among other things, it quoted Antonio Pildáin y Zapiáin, Bishop of the Canary Islands, who attacked the philosopher as an "enemy of the religious faith common to all Spaniards." It also quoted a 1942 decree in which the then Bishop of Salamanca listed the books of Unamuno that were on the Index. In a sudden panic, the university changed the name of the Unamuno house, which...
...world. There was Oxford's red, Hamburg's blue, Padua's ermine, the Sorbonne's yellow, white tie and tails from Harvard and Princeton. In the face of such a gathering, Salamanca should have been pleased-except for the irrepressible ghost of Miguel de Unamuno...