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To propose that men be religious without having religious institutions is like proposing that they be learned without having schools. | propose | {
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To propose that men be religious without having religious institutions is like proposing that they be learned without having schools. | be | {
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Both eventualities are possible logically, but practically they are impossible. | are | {
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Both eventualities are possible logically, but practically they are impossible. | are | {
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As much as men intrinsically need the unity that is grounded in God, they instrumentally require the institutions that will direct their steps toward him. | need | {
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As much as men intrinsically need the unity that is grounded in God, they instrumentally require the institutions that will direct their steps toward him. | grounded | {
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As much as men intrinsically need the unity that is grounded in God, they instrumentally require the institutions that will direct their steps toward him. | require | {
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As much as men intrinsically need the unity that is grounded in God, they instrumentally require the institutions that will direct their steps toward him. | direct | {
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Yet the fact remains that such institutions do set men at odds with their fellows. | remains | {
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Yet the fact remains that such institutions do set men at odds with their fellows. | set | {
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Is there any way out of the predicament? | Is | {
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The only way that I can see is through communication. | see | {
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The only way that I can see is through communication. | is | {
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Interfaith communication need not be regarded as an unfortunate burden visited upon us by the necessity of maintaining diplomatic relations with our adversaries. | regarded as | {
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Interfaith communication need not be regarded as an unfortunate burden visited upon us by the necessity of maintaining diplomatic relations with our adversaries. | visited | {
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Interfaith communication need not be regarded as an unfortunate burden visited upon us by the necessity of maintaining diplomatic relations with our adversaries. | maintaining | {
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Approached creatively, it is a high art. | Approached | {
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Approached creatively, it is a high art. | is | {
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It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God 's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary. | is | {
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It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God 's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary. | relating | {
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It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God 's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary. | doing | {
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It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God 's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary. | insure | {
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It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God 's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary. | thwart | {
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It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God 's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary. | is | {
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In a certain sense, interfaith communication parallels diplomatic communication among the nation-states. | parallels | {
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What are the pertinent facts affecting such communication at the present juncture of history? | affecting | {
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I shall touch on three areas : personal, national, and theological. | touch on | {
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By personal factors I mean those rooted in personality structure. | mean | {
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Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate. | occasioned | {
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Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate. | have | {
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Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate. | blame | {
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Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate. | distrust | {
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Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate. | denounce | {
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Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate. | hate | {
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Such needs may rise to pathological proportions. | rise | {
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Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally. | shown | {
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Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally. | paralleling | {
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Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally. | combine | {
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Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally. | provide | {
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Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally. | manufactured | {
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Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally. | exist | {
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Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us. | appears | {
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Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us. | be | {
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Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us. | be | {
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Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us. | think | {
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Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us. | separates | {
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To some extent the personal inadequacies that prejudices attempt to compensate for are to be found in all of us. | attempt | {
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To some extent the personal inadequacies that prejudices attempt to compensate for are to be found in all of us. | are | {
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To some extent the personal inadequacies that prejudices attempt to compensate for are to be found in all of us. | found | {
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Interfaith conflicts which spring from psychological deficiencies are the most unfortunate of all, for they have no redeeming features whatsoever. | spring | {
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Interfaith conflicts which spring from psychological deficiencies are the most unfortunate of all, for they have no redeeming features whatsoever. | are | {
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Interfaith conflicts which spring from psychological deficiencies are the most unfortunate of all, for they have no redeeming features whatsoever. | have | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | is | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | say | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | done | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | learn | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | recognize | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | is | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | causing | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | do | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | nurture | {
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It is difficult to say what can be done about them except that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rather than pretexts for them, that are causing the trouble, and do everything possible to nurture the healthy personalities that will prevent the development of such deficiencies. | prevent | {
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While the personality factors that aggravate interfaith conflict may be perennial, nationalism is more variable. | aggravate | {
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While the personality factors that aggravate interfaith conflict may be perennial, nationalism is more variable. | be | {
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While the personality factors that aggravate interfaith conflict may be perennial, nationalism is more variable. | is | {
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The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century. | have in mind | {
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The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century. | is | {
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The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century. | gained | {
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Emerging from the two centuries of colonial domination, the Afro-Asian world is aflame with a nationalism that has undone empires. | Emerging | {
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Emerging from the two centuries of colonial domination, the Afro-Asian world is aflame with a nationalism that has undone empires. | is | {
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Emerging from the two centuries of colonial domination, the Afro-Asian world is aflame with a nationalism that has undone empires. | undone | {
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No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year. | achieved | {
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No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year. | growing | {
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As an obvious consequence, obstacles to genuine interfaith communication have grown more formidable in one important area : relations between Christians and non-Christians in these lands. | grown | {
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Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other. | been | {
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Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other. | make | {
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Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other. | is | {
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Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other. | tied | {
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Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other. | tended | {
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Actually, however, this turns out to be only part of the picture. | turns out | {
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Actually, however, this turns out to be only part of the picture. | be | {
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Nationalism has abetted not only the repudiation of foreign religions but the revival of native ones, some of which had been lying in slumber for centuries. | abetted | {
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] | [
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The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need. | is | {
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The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need. | serve | {
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The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need. | promote | {
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The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need. | need | {
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Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else 's. | claim | {
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Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else 's. | incarnate | {
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Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else 's. | constitute | {
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Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else 's. | led | {
"name": "lead",
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"lead%2:32:00::"
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Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else 's. | emphasize | {
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"emphasize%2:32:00::"
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Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else 's. | are | {
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All this works severely against the kind of cross-cultural communication for which Christian missions stand. | works | {
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"work%2:35:02::"
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All this works severely against the kind of cross-cultural communication for which Christian missions stand. | stand | {
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"stand%2:42:00::"
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