Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preacher-Editor. Dr. Morrison is a fighting editor of the old school who has made the Christian Century the most vigorous and intelligent Protestant weekly in the U.S. Pastor Morrison (of the Disciples of Christ) became Journalist Morrison when he bought the Christian Century in 1908 and made it interdenominational. The Century's "editorial we" has stood for Morrison ever since. Says he of his job and his magazine: "As an editor I am still a preacher. It is a journal of opinion, not news...
...secretly wanted to ask you, the very fountainhead. You had told us that to understand knowledge would show us The Way more certainly than a flash of faith: but wasn't it faith that drew us to you? Your science had justified to us the conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow men were our brothers and equals: but had you showed us how to love the man who still remained unconvinced? Could we fit into your gentle worlds of learning the treachery of desperate Arab urchins, the hauteur of allies hurt by unplanned...
...Crucified Hope of the world, for the delight he gave to those who try to convince themselves that belly, sensual desire, is the only god worthy of rational worship. . . . At the heart of [his] objection to the Catholic Church is his unwillingness to acknowledge the divinity of Christ...
Judas Had the Place to Himself. Schoenberner also found two other important examples of the gap between appearance and reality. One was the result of a visit to Oberammergau, where Bavarian peasants performed their world-famed Passion Play. Schoenberner discovered that the peasant who played the role of Christ was thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow...
...Schweitzer's thesis: Jesus shared the Jewish Messianic expectation that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount, which he hailed as the charter of a great ethical faith...