Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. . . . Man must offer himself to become the 'wheat of Christ' in Christianity's ancient principle of dying to self; or else . . . humanity shall know the graceless and terrible tragedy of self-destruction...
...chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...
...Catholic Error. ". . . Catholic bishops have the practice of rushing to the public and to print, every time Protestants call attention to some form of official Catholic intolerance, with the assertion that it is Christ Himself who is under attack, and that only disloyalty to Christ could have prompted the criticism. There is a curious pathos in this performance; for the bishops could hardly understand that from the Protestant standpoint it is precisely this unqualified identification of Christ with the historic church which is the root of all Catholic heresies and the cause of Catholic intolerance...
...Christ followed such a course, His career would not have included the bitter agony of Calvary. No doubt he would have lived to be a wealthy, opinionated "Christian" of the C. S. Lewis type...
...canvas lay unrolled like a rug on the floor. Pushing up his horn-rimmed spectacles, the auctioneer eyed Christ's Entry into Jerusalem dubiously and wondered out loud whether it would bring $100 or $10,000. "Somebody might want it for a church," he mused hopefully, "and then again a dealer might want to cut it up into handy-size...