Article June 7, 1958 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, W. F. Millard, Sam S. Langley

From an article in the London Times reprinted in The Youngstown [Ohio] Vindicator

In the First Epistle of St. John, the expression "the world" is used with different meanings, but most characteristically it signifies everything in human life which is antagonistic to the life of the spirit. The aim, therefore, of the spiritual life is to overcome it. ... The world is redeemable, but it can be redeemed only by love. ...

The Christian will not overcome the world by regarding it as something alien from himself. He may be thought of as standing over against the world order, yet, paradoxically, he is part of that order and cannot isolate himself from it.

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