24. Gabriel Marcel views the lack of reflection as a major cause of the dehumanizing conditions prevailing in today’s world (
The Mystery of Being, vol. I,
Reflection and Mystery, 1960, pp. 44-47). On the significance of reflection in Christian worship, see James White,
The Worldliness of Worship, 1967, pp. 48-78. John Bosco perceptively wrote:
“Modern man is only satisfied with himself when he has not a moment left for himself; the more he does the more he believes he can do. But the speed one takes neutralizes in reality personality and life. The internal reality of man is destroyed by the swirl of external life. Man loses the ability to accomplish his acts, that is, to engage himself totally in a reflective action” (
“Juste place dans notre vie personnelle,” in
Le Semeur, 1947, p. 262).
25. Harvey Gallagher Cox,
Turning East. The Promise and Peril of the New Orientalism, 1977, p. 65.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 66.
28. Ibid., p. 68.
29. Ibid., p. 72.
30. Herbert Saunders,
“Reaching a Pluralistic Society With the Sabbath Truth,” The Sabbath Sentinel 30 (1978): 5.
31. Achad Haam, Ii Birio, 1927, p. 54.
32. Samuel H. Dresner,
The Sabbath, 1970, p. 63. Earlier Dresner writes:
“Man is half-animal, half-angel, and for six days there is a struggle between the two. One day a week, however, we learn to make peace between body and soul, between spirit and flesh” (ibid., p. 52).
33.
“The Christianity Today Gallup Poll: An Overview,” Christianity Today 23 (Dec. 21, 1979): 14.
34. Ibid.
35. A. H. Lewis,
“The Divine Element in the Weekly Rest Day,” in
The World’s Parliament of Religions, John Henry, ed., 1893, p. 740.
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