Word: unitarianizing
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...Activities, Walter Morris, "have come to realize that science is accurate and true in those areas to which it has purposely limited itself." Freud is still studied respectfully, but he no longer monopolizes the conversation. The fashion now, says Nicholas Cardell, director of the University of Chicago's Unitarian Channing Club, "is to talk of Niebuhr or Tillich...
...small though significant Boston firm, the Beacon Press, frequently sets out "to take a beating" on a book which "deserves to be published," in the words of its editor Melvin Arnold. Sponsored by the American Unitarian Association, the house publishes no more than 20 cloth-bound books a year. But its influence far outweighs its size. "Specializing in public controversy," according to Arnold, the Beacon Press was founded in the nineteenth century to publish sermons, and it still prints "books that we feel should be published." Among the better known of its recent polemics were Paul Blanshard's attack...
...Increasing automation, leading to a shorter work week, may force churches to shift their major weekly services from Sunday to Thursday night by 1970, the Rev. Irving R. Murray, a Unitarian, told a Congregational audience in Lexington, Mass. "It is, indeed, arrogant of churches to assume they have the right to impose the village, agricultural type of Sabbath of ancient times upon modern, urban, industrial people. Intelligent churchmen will begin today to prepare for tomorrow's three-day weekend." ¶The Christian Century showed itself unimpressed by Americans who dusted off their Bibles or boosted Bible sales...
...Boston. 583 voting delegates to the 130th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association heard a report of a committee appointed last year to study the thorny question of whether Unitarians have any business making resolutions on non-church matters. "To abandon the practice now," the report decided, "could be interpreted as a move of caution or expediency ... in the present climate of opinion adverse to free speech, heretical views and diversity of opinion. " One of the "hazards" of being a Unitarian, according to the report, is that Unitarians believe in "work for the kingdom of God." and that kingdom...
Other development favorable to the Unitarian position, Eliot said, were the "new spirit of backing, financial and otherwise, from alumni and the general public"; the appointment of new faculty members "with absolutely first rate minds operating freely"; the appointment of Douglas Horton as the dean...