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...Sojourner on Earth. The 2nd century father, Tatian, attacked the Greeks' cyclical conception of immortality, which assumed the pre-existence of the soul, with life extending into eternity, backward as well as forward. Tatian held that the soul is as mortal as the body, but that it can be saved by God. Immortality is not the Christian hope, said Tatian, but "life eternal"-which means living in God. And God grants this only to those who do not grasp for immortality, but submit to death. "Die to the world and repudiate its madness. Live to God, take hold...
...writing was a quotation from a letter written by one of the most important of the church fathers-Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late 2nd century. The letter, to an unknown Theodore, corresponds in vocabulary and style to known writings of Clement. It refers to a "secret Gospel" of Mark-so secret, in fact, that Clement enjoins Theodore to deny knowledge of it even on oath...
...Dallas the House of Bishops had reaffirmed the two ancient and fundamental creeds of the church, the Apostles' Creed (whose roots lie in the 2nd century) and the 4th century Nicene Creed, as being proclamations of "a gift whose kind and nature does not in itself change from generation to generation...
...present book, carefully putting the matter in question form, Murray suggests that the .American system, including the American economy, is more than a material achievement to be held somewhat suspect from the spiritual point of view, but "a human good" and a limited "end-in-itself," recalling the 2nd century dictum of Irenaeus that "the material is susceptible of salvation...
...hold the job, who becomes board chairman. Dan Parker is the grandson of George Parker, who founded the firm in 1888, and son of Kenneth Parker, who was board chairman until last month. Daniel Parker has been groomed for the top spot at Parker since boyhood. A Marine 2nd lieutenant in World War II. he attended Harvard Business School, joined the company in 1949 and was put in charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives at the office at 6:30 a.m., likes to skip lunch and work until evening. He pilots his own helicopter...