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Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology.
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Thomas C. Oden |
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Niebuhr [Oden's Doctoral adviser at Yale and leading 20th century Christian theological ethicist] wanted all of his graduate students to have some serious interdisciplinary competence beyond theology, so I chose to be responsible for the area of psychology of religion. I hoped to correlate aspects of contemporary psychotherapies with a philosophy of universal history. The psychology that prevailed in my college years was predominately Freud..
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empirical-social-psychology
freudian
niebuhr
psychology-of-religion
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Thomas C. Oden |
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His [brother in law Jim Hampson] appointment to the Episcopal parish in Wenham, near Gordon College brought them in close touch with leading evangelical faculty members in their pews and church leadership, including Elizabeth Elliot and Addison Leitch. They were instrumental in drawing Jim and and Sarah into the cutting edge of evangelical intellectual leadership, with friendships with Tom Howard and J.I. Packer. My ongoing relationship wit..
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bible-interpretation
conversion
demythologizing
elizabeth-elliott
evangelicalism
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Thomas C. Oden |
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After some pondering, I made a decision that would affect all of my future work and writing in more ways than I could ever have anticipated. It was a decision between seminary and college teaching. More so it was a decision between two very different cultures of New England and the Southwest. I chose seminary teaching in Texas, which was a decision some of my colleague on the East Coast thought was foolish. From then on, as long as I was in..
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teaching-the-faith
vocation
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Thomas C. Oden |
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I sent the first half of the dissertation to Rudolf Bultmann [major figures of early 20th century biblical studies and a prominent voice in liberal Christianity] as a courtesy with an invitation to respond to any points in my analysis and critique if he wished. I was speechless when I received a long letter from Bultmann, who had diligently examined the details of my arguments. His letter became a featured part of the publication in 1964 by..
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situation-ethics
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Thomas C. Oden |
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Questions about God's existence, self disclosure, saving action and almighty power reminded me of my inadequacies. For me the theo in theology had become little more than a question mark. I could confidently discuss philosophy, psychology and social change, but God made me uneasy.
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theological-liberalism
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Thomas C. Oden |
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Back at my teaching and editing jobs I imagined the new world we were trying to create would be enduring and absolutely better than any world we had inherited. For me, if an idea was purported to be new, it looked a lot better than any idea that seemed to be old. Most theologians I knew were trying to discover some new way of looking at the old ideas of God, humanity, sin and salvation. I was there to teach theology, but theology itself was..
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theological-liberalism
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Thomas C. Oden |
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I functioned as a movement theologian, continuously shifting from movement to movement toward whatever new idea i thought might seem to be an acceptable modernization of Christianity. This required me to be constantly on the move, networking, editing, writing, strategizing and serving as an information adviser for student movement leaders. This was admittedly a massive departure from classic Christianity, which I recognize but ignored. If t..
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theological-liberalism
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Thomas C. Oden |
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Samuel] Gompers saw as few others did that in America labor must shape itself to the contours of its society rather than try to remake society. He realized that Americans workers endorsed principles that they carried with them everywhere, even to work. Donning overalls wrought no magic transformation of the multifaceted work force into a single-minded body. To succeed, any labor movement would have to take the workers as they came, accept t..
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Harold C. Livesay |
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Dallas held up the gun and now pointed it at Martin.
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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His long journey to school typically took him about half an hour. The school was a mile away, and despite the small size of the town, that was still quite a walk.
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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finally, after many minutes of hard work,
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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You don't just concede defeat in these circumstances. You take every second you can find and use it to pray for another few seconds. Hope is a cruel bitch.
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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I didn't want it to end inside the belly of some creature from Pluto, the bowls of Siberia,
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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What did Ralph do?" "What dogs always do, started licking his balls."
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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song about truck driving vampires.
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Ryan C. Thomas |
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Superficially, Edit and Pray seems like "working with care," a very professional thing to do. The "care" that you take is right there at the forefront, and you expend extra care when the changes are very invasive because much more can go wrong. But safety isn't solely a function of care."
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Michael C. Feathers |
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four consecutive temples--the first made of laurel, the second of birds' feathers and beeswax, the third of bronze, and the fourth of stone--the last of which was burned down in 548 BC. Pindar's
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Michael C. Scott |
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The fact remains: Good design is testable, and design that isn't testable is bad.
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Michael C. Feathers |
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we can't let "best" be the enemy of "better."
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Michael C. Feathers |
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Teams take serious chances when they try to make large changes without tests. It is like doing aerial gymnastics without a net.
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Michael C. Feathers |
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system will get better as long as people aren't introducing duplication behind your back. If they are, you can take steps with them short of physical violence,
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Michael C. Feathers |
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brush, Pattern *backdrop) {
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Michael C. Feathers |
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The gift of changing requires you to persevere in your changes in spite of any personal discomfort or disappointment in your beloved's instantaneous reaction; it may take some time for him/her to feel trusting and open again to you. You have to have the compassion and fortitude to proceed forward based on what is right, not what gets immediate applause.
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Laura C. Schlessinger |
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Jane represents a lot of you who are terribly determined to avoid risk. You stay with the pain you know and avoid the possibility of joys, for the pains they might bring with them. You whine about your predicament and unhappiness, but choose that predicament and unhappiness over throwing your preoccupation with caution to the wind. Life becomes even shorter when you don't fill it. Separate Reasonable Negative Emotions from the
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Laura C. Schlessinger |
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To restrain one's ambitions, in recognition of the rights of others, is a contributor to international order, not an abdication from it.
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David C. Hendrickson |
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Of all the questions we can ask ourselves the most important is: how is one best to live?
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A. C. Grayling |
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Symbols have the unfortunate power to acquire the importance of what they symbolise.
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A. C. Grayling |
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People not only live by symbols, but die by them, as wars of religion and nationalism attest.
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A. C. Grayling |
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Evil" is first and foremost a religious notion. It means whatever a religion dislikes.
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A. C. Grayling |
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There is no greater social evil than religion. It is the cancer in the body of humanity.
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A. C. Grayling |
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Prudery expresses itself most forcibly as censorship.
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A. C. Grayling |
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On the best view, justice is fairness.
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A. C. Grayling |
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It is the technique of the baboon to try to get its way by violence.
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A. C. Grayling |
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The one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of understanding.
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A. C. Grayling |
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Ideas are the cogs of history--and too often the barricades that stand in its way.
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A. C. Grayling |
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Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.
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A. C. Grayling |
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A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
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C (programming language) |
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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
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C (programming language) |
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C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of ... assembly language.
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C (programming language) |
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style.
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C (programming language) |
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Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
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C++ |
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Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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C++ |
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In C++, reinvention is its own reward.
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C++ |