Word: christians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brunner does not believe that a truly Christian civilization is just around the corner, but he is not pessimistic: "The terrible perspectives which are placed before us ... have opened the eyes of many of our contemporaries to ... the importance of the Christian tradition. It is not only the physicists and technicians, terrified by their latest results, who . . . are looking out for a new spiritual basis of life, but also the jurists, the sociologists, the psychologists, and . . . the artists and poets. The lowest point of secularization seems to be behind...
...London Times, which likes to set off brisk little intellectual bonfires in its famed letters column, found it had a red-hot religious discussion on its hands. A 2,000-word article by a "Special Correspondent," titled Catholicism Today: Relations between Rome and the Christian World, started it. While he praised the Roman Catholic Church for resistance to Communism, the Times writer questioned whether the Catholic "machinery of ecclesiastical government ... is at the present time perfectly adjusted to Christianity's universal mission. Having no 20th Century Aquinas, the Roman Church sometimes appears intellectually ill at ease in the modern...
...Will the Roman Church continue tacitly accepting the role assigned to it as the largest of the Christian sects and thus, while encouraging all to enter 'the one ark of salvation,' remain, defending its traditional privileges and furthering its corporate interests, engrossed in its own affairs? Or will it ... condescending to discuss ways and means with the heretics and schismatics, strive (assuming their cooperation) to bring into being a revivified Christendom...
...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...
...Luce stated at the outset that the American capitalistic economy, with all its defects, is closer to the spirit of Christianity than either socialism or communism. The Rev. Dr. Niebuhr replied that a proper application of the "Love thy neighbor" ideal was the decisive element in making any governmental system truly Christian in spirit...