Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They will have to. For better or for worse, the world today is committed to accelerating change: radical, wrenching, erosive of both traditions and old values. Its inheritors have grown up with rapid change, are better prepared to accommodate it than any in history, indeed embrace change as a virtue...
Medieval scholastics, following the sages of ancient Greece, defined God as "subsisting Being Itself"-a Supreme Creator whose essence is identical with his existence. Whatever value the formula once had, says Dewart, it no longer accords with contemporary philosophical conceptions of being, which limit the word to knowable, created things...
Sir: Reductionist Pike's case reduces to this: the question is not whether he is right or wrong, but whether he is Episcopalian. His non-transcendent, non-omnipotent, non-Trinitarian, nonChristian, nonBiblical god does not represent a new description of the Christian God, but a new god. As long...
Mid-Channel Course. Javits argues convincingly that in pursuing the nomination his transcendent interest is not his personal future but that of the G.O.P. "It is my burning desire," he says, "to bring the Republican Party to modern terms." Regardless of his own fortunes at the G.O.P. convention, he sees...
While funds have been raised privately for a memorial to the late President only three blocks away (TIME, Dec. 24, 1965), many citizens were shocked at the tawdry boosterism of the city-approved legend. The juxtaposition of "historical trivia with a happening of transcendent significance," observed the Dallas Times-Herald...