Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Pope decides a matter for the entire church, says Rahner, he does so not by virtue of his own office alone, but as head of the bishops, who collectively are the descendants of the Apostles. Rahner reaches even farther, arguing that the entire hierarchy in its collective wisdom does not hold all the keys to the temples of truth. There is, he says, a "charismatic" element in the church, independent of the tables of organization. Just as God in the Old Testament spoke through prophets who were not priests, so he may in this century speak through prophetic...
Secret Heart. In trying to prove his thesis that ancient myths embody intuitive wisdom that is only now being proved out, Eliot indulges himself in many a long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows...
...differs visibly from, let us say, that of Stuart Hughes'. Ryan talks victory; he sees the cold war and its concomitant arms-spending as an obstacle to the goals which a progressive society must fulfill. He is convinced that only in a world en route to disarmament can the wisdom and spirit that distinguish the United States among nations exert their full influence...
...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. The first complete edition of one of England's greatest wits reveals depths of wisdom in a man so often caricatured...
...13th, has a feeling for history and an unaffected sense of equality with Britain's former subjects that has earned him the friendship of native leaders from Bangalore to Brunei. To hold Kenya together, as the East African Standard warned last week, he will also need "the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job and uncommon good luck...