Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union in 1938, Dr. Scott went right on teaching (last year at Amherst) and writing. Latest of his 20-odd books, Man & Society in the New Testament (Scribner; $2.75), just published, is the July selection of the Religious Book Club. In it he vigorously hammers home the text that Christ's teaching is no blueprint for the Good Society, but a religion for individuals...
...first-rate from what is not." He restates his counsel of perfection in this month's Atlantic essay (originally a lecture at Toronto's Victoria College). Says he: "Always, soon or late, humanity turns to excellence as naturally as a flower turns to the sun: mankind crucifies Christ and kills Socrates, and they die amid derision and hatred; but in the end they receive the homage of the world. . . . To see the vision of excellence ... is to take seriously the tremendous words of Christ: 'Be ye therefore perfect...
Protestantism generally, says Critic Morrison, is "bedeviled by its unscriptural use of the Scriptures. . . . It has been the victim of a kind of theological schizophrenia which caused it to vibrate between two authorities. Professing loyalty to Christ, it has been tethered and hamstrung by its literalistic conception of the Scriptures as authoritative. . . . The Protestant mind has not allowed Christ to be the interpreter of the Bible, it has used the Bible as a legalistic and literalistic interpreter of Christ...
Ecumenical Church. Having painstakingly diagnosed Protestantism's compound ailments, Dr. Morrison fairly raced to a prescription for the cure: U.S. Protestantism's 200-odd separate "churches" must become a single Church united under the Lordship of Christ...
...Protestantism must now demonstrate to itself and to the world that the intention of the Reformation was to project into history an empirical and truly catholic and ecumenical church. . . . It has the freedom, under Christ, to go about this undertaking without let or hindrance from any private interpretation of the Bible, or any theological differences. . . . I say it has the freedom to do this. More true is it to say that it has no freedom not to do it, because it is the will of Christ that it be done...