Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead? The three words represent a summons to reflect on the meaning of existence. No longer is the question the taunting jest of skeptics for whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago. Even within Christianity, now confidently renewing itself in spirit as well as form, a small band of radical theologians has seriously argued that the churches must accept the fact of God's death, and get along without him. How does the issue differ from the age-old assertion that God does...
...have seeped into other areas of life; in effect, knowledge has become that which can be known by scientific study?and what cannot be known that way somehow seems uninteresting, unreal. In previous ages, the man of ideas, the priest or the philosopher was regarded as the font of wisdom. Now, says Jenkins, the sage is more likely to be an authority "trained in scientific methods of observing phenomena, who bases what he says on a corpus of knowledge built up by observation and experiment and constantly verified by further processes of practice and observation." The prestige of science...
...every State of the Union, American Citizens are entitled at age 21 to vote for the President of the United States. Why should greater wisdom or longevity be required to vote for Overseers of Harvard College? The trend in several states has been to lower the voting age below age 21, in part on the reasonable theory that if citizens can be drafted into the Army or other Armed Services at 18, they should be permitted to vote for the officials and on the issues relating to their lives...
...early church fathers would have examined Adman Ogilvy carefully for horns and a cloven hoof if they had heard his contemptuous put-down of patience, a paramount Christian virtue. St. Paul rated it a "fruit of the spirit" and St. Augustine called it "the companion of wisdom." Saints had it: the ultimate in provocation is proverbially "enough to try the patience of a saint." Sinners had it not: they complained and lamented. The Jews waited as patiently as they could for the Messiah and the Lord's Kingdom that would right all earthly wrongs. The Moslems told one another...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. A novel it is not, but it is a novel autobiography of an old bohemian, who describes with much wit and some wisdom the anarchists, pacifists, ragged Utopians and ordinary cranks he encountered during a freewheeling life...