Word: christ
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Should Easter fall on the same day every year, instead of shifting with the moon? Last week at the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 300 delegates representing 26,000,000 Protestants of 25 denominations addressed themselves to the problem. Their recommendation: it should fall on the second Sunday in April, as nearest the historic date of the Resurrection...
Although he believes that Christ's teaching "towers star-high," and that the world "can be spiritually healed only if it finds its way back to true Christianity," Werfel will always remain a Jew: "Israel is more than a nation; it is an historical and biological order . . . into which . . . one enters by birth, never to be released until the last day but one. A Jew who steps up to the baptismal font . . . deserts . . . from the side of the weak and the persecuted . . . from Israel's deepest origins, from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. . . . [He] deserts Christ Himself, since...
CAESAR AND CHRIST-Will Durant-Simon & Schuster...
...spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may lack moral passion. But as clear exposition of an immensely complicated story, it is magnificent...
Will Durant, giving full, colorful treatment to Roman culture and everyday life, does not labor the modern political and social analogies. But no reader of Caesar and Christ can fail to miss them...