Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Faculty members fear that the Administration has begun to take a definite stand on sectarian religious matters in the University, one high-ranking Faculty member disclosed last night...
...claims that the present discussion has made Memorial Church "a symbol of disunity in the Harvard community." Although he feels that "one can find legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that," he "cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community...
When Lovett finally gave up the course in 1954, enrollment stood at 300. In 1944 Lovett headed a faculty study that had a profound effect on Yale. "If the nemesis of the strictly sectarian college is its dogmatism," the study declared, "that of the broadly liberal university is its aimlessness." Lovett and his committee recommended that Yale set up a full-fledged graduate and undergraduate department of religion, manned not only by theologians but by psychologists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers. The time had come, said they, to end the "idolatry of every discipline for itself," and to try to reconcile...
...important question is whether, as has been suggested, he prefigured Christ in any sense. Actually, scholars are now generally convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return of the Teacher, but such an idea contains no suggestion that the Teacher was a figure...
...weeks since October, most of the nations of the West and a host of private charitable organizations, ranging from non-sectarian groups such as the International Rescue Committee to Catholic, Jewish, Quaker and other religious charities, have pitched in to help. But Austrians still carry most of the burden. Of the 170,000 refugees who have poured over the border since October, 65,000 remain in Austria, and the cost of maintaining them runs...