Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find nothing useful...
...Gilmore, professor of History, admits that "It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief." Gilmore does admit in History 130 that he has sympathies, chiefly with More and Erasmus, but he is sure to indicate that he is speaking "extra-historically." Gilmore probably speaks for the vast majority of the Faculty when he says, "I don't think anyone should give a course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences qua Lutheran or qua Catholic...
Since in all the various areas of learning--sociologly, psychology, the sciences, history, philosophy, even businss administration--ultimate questions about existence are involved, these studies represents practical actualizations of a vast and embracing spiritual realm. In the Tillichian transcendental real there can be no divorce of preaching and pedagogy; each discipline is a partial manifestation of the Meaning of Being...
...There is a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe and which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call...
...went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense Him as a mighty spiritual `presence' permeating all mankind and nature." The agnostic's view came in a close second; after it came the traditional Christian formulation and then the belief in "a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe ... which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call `God'." And thirty-three people felt moved to sketch their own conceptions of the Deity since the poll hopelessly failed to offer them a satisfactory approximation...