Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, when business suits were the accepted dress at congressional receptions, the legislators seemed eager to preen in black tie and whatever. Senator Strom Thurmond showed up in a rusty red dinner jacket that about matched his hair. Senator Jacob Javits sported what he jokingly referred to as his "basic black by Bill Blass...
Even more basic was the brilliant silver minidress worn by Mrs. Edward Kennedy, one of the very few women not attired in a long gown. The President, perhaps looking ahead to 1972, never took his eyes from the pretty face of his potential rival's wife as he greeted her and exchanged pleasantries in the receiving line. But Mrs. Nixon, for one long instant, could not suppress a stare at those six lissome inches between Joan's hemline and knee...
Like many another basic Christian doctrine - the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ, the existence of heaven and hell - the traditional concept of original sin is currently undergoing more se rious and skeptical scrutiny than ever be fore. Liberal Protestants began their criticism in the last century; now many Catholic thinkers are also challenging the doctrine. One of the latest broad sides is the work of the Rev. Herbert Haag, a Catholic Biblical scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In his new book, called Is Original Sin in Scripture? (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), Haag argues that there...
Woefully Evil. Original sin, says Haag, did not begin to excite widespread theological interest among early Christians until at least the 3rd century. And not until the 5th century-when St. Augustine formulated the doctrine fully and invented the name "original sin"-did it become a basic part of church doctrine. For Augustine, as for many theologians since, the idea of a primordial sin helped explain one of religion's oldest mysteries: the existence of evil in a world supposedly created by a good God. In his pessimistic view, man was himself the culprit, woefully evil because his soul...
...that Homo sapiens is descended not from one set of parents but from many, thus making a literal Adam and Eve quite unlikely. For another, Biblical scholars agree that the story of man's fall in Genesis is not history but myth-a story that points to the basic truth of evil in the world but says nothing about the inheritance of sin. Augustine even read St. Paul wrong; the correct translation of the passage in Romans was not "in whom all have sinned" as the Vulgate had it, but, as the original Greek correctly phrased it, "because...