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It is exactly because the church already allows such diverse ceremonies to take place, which certainly do not all fully comply with every literal word in the Bible, that it is unjust for Memorial Church to exclude homosexuals who wish to have their unions blessed in the Church, assuming those...
It is not far into the Old Testament that we are told that marriage is to be between men and women. Genesis 2:23-24 reads, "Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she...
It was surprising that your otherwise comprehensive article on Mary [RELIGION, Dec. 23] failed to mention a central affirmation of Christian liturgy and belief for countless religious people, namely the Magnificat. To quote from Luke 1: "And Mary said ... For behold, henceforth, all generations will call me blessed; for he...
Oedipus, schmoedipus. Scientists have found "a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and... neurosis" [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 9]. Are they talking about a life of dread-filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result...
Pelikan lovingly tracks successive Marian personae, such as Second Eve, Paragon of Chastity, Queen of Heaven and Blessed Mother, through to the present. He is fascinated with what the Victorian-era Cardinal and theologian John Henry Newman called the "development of doctrine"--the process, infuriating to traditional Protestants, whereby Catholic...