It Has Been True In Western Societies

There Are Times In History When The Dark Drums Of God Can Barely Be Heard Amid The Noises Of This World. Then It Is Only In Moments Of Silence, Which Are Rare And Brief, That Their Beat Can Be Faintly Discerned. There Are Other Times. These Are The Times When God Is Heard In Rolling Thunder, When The Earth Trembles And The Treetops Bend Under The Force Of [god’s] Voice. It Is Not Given To Men [and Women] To Make God Speak. It Is Only Given To Them To Live And To Think In Such A Way That, If God’s Thunder Should Come, They Will Not Have Stopped Their Ears.

There Is A Continuum Of Values Between The Churches And The General Community. What Distinguishes The Handling Of These Values In The Churches Is Mainly The Heavier Dosage Of Religious Vocabulary Involved

On The One Hand, Man Is A Body, In The Same Way That This May Be Said Of Every Other Animal Organism. On The Other Hand, Man Has A Body. That Is, Man Experiences Himself As An Entity That Is Not Identical With His Body, But That, On The Contrary, Has That Body At Its Disposal. In Other Words, Man's Experience Of Himself Always Hovers In A Balance Between Being And Having A Body, A Balance That Must Be Redressed Again And Again.

In All Advanced Industrial Societies, Education Has Become The Single Most Important Vehicle Of Upward Mobility.

The Problem With Liberal Protestantism In America Is Not That It Has Not Been Orthodox Enough, But That It Has Lost A Lot Of Religious Substance