Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean of Christ Church, and therefore of an Oxford College and a cathedral both, the Very Reverend John Lowe has been at Oxford for nine years, but few Oxonians would claim to know him well. He is a spare and stooped theologian, unfailingly polite to everyone-and just as unfailingly aloof. He gives no tutorials, has made few academic changes, seldom even invites anyone in to tea. But last week all Oxford was talking about John Lowe. He had just been made vice chancellor, the nearest thing Oxford has to a president (the chancellorship, at present held by Lord Halifax...
...life," with 44% of these declaring that they were conscious of the spiritual struggle "almost all the time." On this score, many admitted that the going is tough; a majority thought that it is harder to love one's neighbor now than it was in the time of Christ ("Today it's every man for himself...
...average pollee sounded not unlike the Pharisee who went into the temple to pray.* To the question-"If you yourself followed [Christ's rule of love] ALL THE WAY, what would you do differently-that is, how would it change your life?"-half answered that they would not change their present lives at all. Nearly two-thirds (62%) admitted that on thinking over the past 24 hours they could recall no time when they might have acted differently if they were explicitly following Christ's injunction: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." At the same time...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
This week, booksellers all over the world are preparing to meet the usual Christmas demand for the book that has made the name of Thomas à Kempis more enduring than marble. The Imitation of Christ has probably been translated into more languages than any other book but the Bible (at least eight U.S. publishers have one or more editions currently in print).* It is a short book, simply written. Like the writings of the earliest Christians, it speaks directly to ordinary people, not merely to theologians or philosophers. It is perhaps the nearest, clearest answer that has been made...