Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Question, Stumbling Block. To the Greeks, the coming of Christ was not expected. Thus the Greek thinkers looked upon Him as "foolishness," since "nothing is so incredible as an answer to an unasked question." Materialistic Greeks believed that the laws of nature were the final reality to which man must adjust himself...
...Jews, Christ was a grave disappointment, a "stumbling block," because He was not "the kind of Messiah who was expected." The Jews wanted their Messiah to be not only good but a national and triumphant hero who would fulfill history from their special point of view. Instead, Jesus shocked the righteous by teaching that they were, in the final judgment, unrighteous...
...Church's purpose, says he, should be the same as it was nineteen hundred years ago: to proclaim "the nature of God, the nature of man, the right relationship between the two, as these are revealed in the person and teaching of Jesus called the Christ." The result of such proclamations, Bell is sure, would be trouble. But if the Church would get out in the world and make trouble, people would respect it. Bell wishes there were more churchmen like the Archbishop of Canterbury speaking out on economic questions. He confesses that all the "earnest chatter" of churchmen...
...open to criticism (strikes, politics, etc.). Instead of choosing one or more of the innumerable latter, Writer Wylie denounced some of America's proudest possessions: Mom, the common man, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Star-Spangled Banner. . . . After his lusty vulgarity, civilization-pitying Mr. Wylie dares to quote from Christ's text...
...moment that Charles Alfred Rigaud, the boy with tired circles under his eyes, showed himself to be a good officer and grown man. Despite snipers all around us, despite the machine guns and the mortar fire, he stood right up on his feet and shouted out: 'Who in Christ's name gave that order...