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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...