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...Life in Christ" is the content of faith-not intellectual assent to a list of propositional truths but the total involvement of my life in creative freedom, in that love which is incarnate in Christ. Regarding the Biblical accounts: I have not attempted a so-called naturalistic explanation. I have merely asserted what seems a normal and natural assumption, that the accounts as such are relative, historical, open to investigation and therefore subject to a variety of interpretations and opinions. Luther recognized this. Those who have raised these issues have insisted on my holding their opinions, not on the level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...communion with nonconformist clergymen. The Annunciationists also charged that the C.S.I, refused to accept the Christian creeds in entirety, pointed to a clause in the C.S.I, constitution in proof: "The uniting churches accept the fundamental truths embodied in the creeds . . . but do not intend thereby to demand the assent of individuals to every word and phrase of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Intercommunion Squabble | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...glove, Greasy Thumb filed suit to block ABC from giving his life a public airing. Said his petition: "Guzik is not an athlete or actor, not a candidate for public office, has never achieved fame in literature, the arts or sciences, and he has never given his assent to becoming a public figure." Last week, a federal judge smashed Greasy Thumb and his suit. The awful truth: ABC agreed with Guzik that he is no public figure. A network lawyer told the court: "There is no program scheduled that mentions the name of this man. He is tilting at windmills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Unlike France, Italy last week ratified the Paris accords with a minimum of argument and a maximum of assent. Resisting every parliamentary maneuver to block and delay by Western Europe's biggest Communist Party, Liberals, Monarchists, neoFascists, Republicans and right-wing Socialists joined with Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats to vote 335 to 215 for German rearmament in NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Resounding Yes | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...proposed order states that applicants for overnight parking permission will have to show the city's licensing bureau that no garaging facilities are available within a reasonable distance from their residences. The bureau would then need to obtain the assent of the owner of the property adjoining proposed parking sites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City to Consider All Night Street Parking Proposal | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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