Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theological writing is often ponderous, dull, fuzzy-or a mixture of all three. A different grade of theological writing distinguishes Donald M. Baillie's God Was in Christ (Scribner; $2.75), published this week...
Songs & Candles. The Church of Christ, they thought, ought to be a united fellowship of all believers. They plotted to nudge their congregations into eventual unity, and for a while the experiment seemed to prosper on joint choir recitals, Christmas festivals and church socials. But when the two eager young pastors frankly talked merger to a joint meeting of their church boards, they learned something about the wellsprings of faith...
...greater scale than the world has yet seen . . . But the abiding significance of Amsterdam lies in this; that it is to inaugurate a Council of Churches which, please God, will continue, and will continuously draw together into fuller understanding and cooperation the divided groupings of the servants of Christ in the world...
Last week Brown's cult was still growing; crowds still swarmed to his farm. He had begun to intone like the Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...
...prohibition reiterated by the Vatican only last month (TIME, July 5). † Of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of Holy Communion...