Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling the faithful to prayer (La Illaha Illa-Allah-There...
Nearby stands the Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
...please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism as such. To him each denomination is a division in the mighty army of Christ, bearing different designations, emblems and proud traditions. Says...
...Principle whose source and perfect embodiment is God, who finds varying degrees of embodiment in all forms of life, who is the prototype of every grace, power and nobility found in his creation, and whom I call) God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth; and in Jesus Christ (not), His only Son (for whose son am I? But), our Lord (because he is a, more nearly perfect embodiment of the Life Principle than any one I know...
Surprisingly, Grand Old Man Park, unlike some of his Unitarian brethren, is not chary of Christology. Says he: "The type of sermon I'd rather write and read than any other is one which has to do with the life and spirit . . . of Christ...