Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For readers of Sheean's previous works of self-revelation (Personal History, Not Peace But a Sword, etc.), such metaphysical posturing will seem familiar. No reporter was ever less contented with bare facts or more portentously absorbed in getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy...
The Journal draws a conclusion: "The remarkable point is that as many as one-quarter think that they practice the highest, transcendent form of love-love of one's enemy . . . These figures are dramatically incompatible with the facts of American behavior as revealed on every level of national existence...
Bennett rates Communism's "idolatry" as a greater fault than its theoretical Marxist atheism. The Communist regards his particular movement as being able to redeem the world. This passionate "belief, says Bennett, "develops a form of complete human self-sufficiency that is incompatible with the Christian understanding of man...
Communism, Theologian Bennett concludes, which began as a moral protest against social injustice, has turned into a tyranny because it has no transcendent faith to preserve it from idolatry, and no real understanding of the meaning of personal freedom. And all this was largely "because Christians did not see until...
The Transcendent Animal. "The obvious fact," says Dr. Niebuhr, "is that man is a child of nature, subject to its vicissitudes, compelled by its necessities, driven by its impulses, and confined within the brevity of the years which nature permits its varied organic forms. . . . The other less obvious fact is...