Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Sholem Asch has enjoyed international popularity for the novels and short stories he has written out of his vast knowledge of Jewish life and history. Mary concludes his most ambitious work, a trilogy on the beginnings of Christianity that already includes bestselling lives of Christ (The Nazarene) and St. Paul (The Apostle). In both earlier books Asch had a dramatic lifeline to follow, and he followed it skillfully, feeding in a fascinating mass of scholarly wrinkles, though often he enlarged on Gospel truth. On Mary's life the Scripture is scant, and Asch had to enlarge still further...
...cast. American Protestant ism is committed." With these portentous words the Christian Century began an editorial last week on the recently launched United Evangelistic Advance (TIME, Oct. 10). The nationwide 15-month drive of 38 Protestant denominations to win "America for Christ" by every modern method of evangelism, says the Century," will bring America to an hour of decision concerning the free and evangelical faith which has found expression in the daily life and attitudes of its people...
...expected," warns the Century, "that voices will be raised declaring that the gates of heaven cannot be stormed by mass assault, and they are right. But the point is irrelevant. In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible. Christ wills the conversion of Amer ica. Of that we can be sure. But do we desire it above everything else? Are the churches prepared to risk it? When Christ wins America every local church will be transformed, every community changed, every denomination identified with the larger life of the ecumenical church. Did those...
...leave behind it neuroses, disillusionment and bitterness ... On the other hand, it could move quietly across the land and leave in its wake lives trans formed by the power of God, illumined by sound knowledge of Christian truth, radiant in the experience of fulfillment in the Kingdom of Christ...
...hero of To Every Man a Penny is a determinedly kindly French cleric. Abbe Gaston's trouble was that he took Christ's teachings literally. In word, thought and deed he kept trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson...