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...given in the Biblical account of the virgin birth of Christ? - even in this day of artificial insemination? Or is their attitude more akin to that of Pilate, who, for fear of the people (public opinion), acquiesced in the crucifixion of Christ? To deliberately fail to affirm the virgin birth is to deny that Jesus...
...Conant does affirm that mankind will survive the perils of the atomic age. Moreover, through the development of solar energy--long a pet theory of his--man's material prosperity will increase despite the exhaustion of some standard fuels like coal...
Seclusion & Solitude. Back in the U.S., Van Dusen was licensed by the New York Presbytery, and almost at once found himself involved in the controversy then raging between the Fundamentalists and their liberal opponents. On the ground that young Van Dusen declined to affirm the literal Biblical account of the virgin birth, a conservative-minded judicial commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly challenged the right of the Presbytery to ordain him. The issue dragged on for two years before his ordination was officially recognized, with the help of a brief in his support by a Presbyterian lawyer named John Foster...
...deny the virgin birth, said Baptist Max Wicker, "and I do not affirm it. My mind is still open." This statement of position last week did not satisfy Wicker's superiors on the general board of the Southern Baptist Church in North Carolina. After a six-hour hearing, the board dismissed from their jobs: Wicker, 39, secretary of the Baptist Student Union at Duke University; the Rev. J. C. Herrin, 29, Baptist Student Union secretary at the University of North Carolina, and the union's state secretary, the Rev. James W. Ray, 39. Like Wicker, the others...
Camus' rebel asserts as he destroys. Like Ivan Karaxazov, he challenges God in the name of a greater good. "If the suffering of children," says the rebel through Ivan's words, "serves to complete the sum of suffering necessary for the acquisition of truth, I affirm from now onwards that truth is not worth such a price." He denies God, because God is unjust...