Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone wild, Ramsey offers a detailed analysis of the World Council's 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, which he attended as an observer. An overwhelming majority of the participants, he says, were doctrinaire liberals who imposed on the conference a "truncated Barthi anism" - a theology emphasizing Christ as a revolutionary figure. Proposals were perfunctorily debated (floor speeches were limited to an average of four minutes) and hurried through (no more than half of those present ever voted...
...Gospels tend to blame the Jews of Jerusalem, Christian Biblical scholars generally agree that the Evangelists underplayed Roman responsibility. Now, Israel Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn, an expert in the history of Jewish legal traditions, argues that not only did the Jews have no part in the trial of Christ, but also that the Sanhedrin, Judaism's high court, actually tried to save him from death...
...Jewish authorities summon Jesus? Their motive, Cohn believes, may well have been a desire to recoup their waning popular prestige by saving a prophetic teacher beloved by the masses of Jerusalem. In Cohn's reconstruction of the events, the Sanhedrin first examined witnesses not to condemn Christ but to find men who would convincingly testify in his favor before the Romans. When it could find none, the high court attempted to persuade Jesus to plead not guilty before the Romans; he refused. The buffeting that Matthew says Jesus received from Sanhedrin members was thus not punishment for blasphemy...
...joint prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica, Paul expressed sorrow that "we cannot have that complete communion among ourselves which would be a sign to the world." Athenagoras agreed that they should "exhaust all means to accomplish the union of the divided church of Christ...
...poet named Bezdomny has brilliantly executed a commission, a poem on Christ, but although it is correctly derisive, his work commits the error of assuming that Christ actually existed. Bezdomny's editor, Berlioz, is straightening out his tame poet on his shaky ideology when the Devil arrives to straighten them both out. Beautifully dressed, learned and well-spoken (the Prince of Darkness being a gentleman), Satan is amused by their respectable atheism. To teach them a lesson about his powers-and about the reality of the supernatural-he turns soothsayer and predicts that the editor will be beheaded...