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...Comic News' most notable"just-for-fun" features is a collection of twoweeks' worth of "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips.The insanely popular strip was a major sellingpoint when the Comic News first starteddistribution in Harvard Square, says Wallace...
...place of Scripture, Gomes says, we have the "continuing revelation of God," which he discovers to be a wonderfully malleable and useful thing indeed. More splendidly, Gomes seems at last to have liberated the Christian from Calvin's sticky rule, that the Holy Spirit speaking at different times must at least be consistency with himself. Truly, our bondage to the idol of consistency seems a formidable enemy to be overcome; but judging by his prodigious success thus far, I do not doubt but that Gomes is capable of the victory...
Quite apart from my naive affection for Aristotelian ethics (shared with such other insufficiently Protestant men as Melanchton and Beza), I confess that in my former confusion, I had been somewhat struck by the theological ethics of Calvin and his successors; in that darkened state, I had been impressed more than I ought by more recent Protestant efforts to ground sexual ethics in the fact of the divine creation of the human race as male and female...
...delighted to find in the Reverend Gomes a man more reformed and Protestant than Karl Barth--to say nothing of Luther and Calvin; a man more Christian than Paul, Augustine or Aquinas; a man with more authority than all of these and the Scriptures put together; and I find myself confirmed in this high estimation out of the man's own mouth, as he liberates us from each of these tyrannies in its turn...
...such findings have not dented the widespread impression that these groups are "model" minorities. Blacks are seen as less hardworking and less deserving than members of model minorities -- although 90% of them hold jobs and their West African ancestors were members of a society whose work ethic out-Calvined Calvin...