Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time ever that the basement of an administration building on a college campus in America was turned into an interrogation cell, where students temporarily became political prisoners, herded into a detention pen--to await deportation to a prison farm. While the cops stood around outside the cage--I use that word advisedly--taunting and teasing the students...
...King may not as of yet succumbed to Southern brutality and a toothbrush may accompany him to his cell, but your implication that he either lacks courage or the willingness to dirty his hands is in poor taste. Dr. King may get a police escort when he speaks in Boston, but whenever he travels through the Deep South (and he does so frequently), and whenever he defies its leaders and flaunts its laws, he exhibits courage of the highest sort...
They foresee a day when there may be fewer Christians but more dedicated ones, and when the church will be built around the active cell of believers rather than the territorial parish. It will be a church seeking to identify the sacred in the midst of the profane, attempting to build the Kingdom of God by transforming the organisms of the secular city. In sum, the new church will be a return to the Biblical notion of the "salt of the earth." Germany's great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner argues that Christianity is already "in diaspora," as the triumphal...
...Francis rejecting the pomp of the medieval church, Luther fulminating at the luxury of Rome, Kierkegaard howling vainly against the placid orthodoxy of Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also, Christianity has undergone revolutionary second Pentecosts, and survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell of believers, worshiping in the catacombs, brought the church through centuries of Roman persecutions. In the Dark Ages of the 9th century, the fortress monasteries of the Benedictines saved the faith of Europe-and the culture of its Greco-Roman past-from the triumph of marauding barbarians...
...disease and solved another mystery of life. But it is the 20th century, the age of technological miracle, that has seen the triumph of the Enlightenment and the apparent banishment of God from the universe-even, thanks to Freud, from the human soul. Writing from his German prison cell in 1944. the anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined it as "the world come of age." in which "man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis...