Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1820, loggers have turned 85% of the redwood forests into building materials. While enlightened lumber companies have long practiced selective logging and reforestation, some still buzz-saw heedlessly through stands of trees that may have been saplings at the time of Christ's birth. Where once the redwoods covered nearly 2,000,000 acres, today only 300,000 acres of virgin trees are left, including 50,000 acres sequestered in scattered state parks...
...threatened by secular inroads and spiritual indifference. Ranking church leaders openly question the relevance of Christianity, while old denominational quarrels have been upstaged by a new threat of schism: crisis-centered activists who see the church's function as worldly service, against heaven-glancing traditionalists who argue that Christ's message was to save souls not nations...
...church's system of indulgences. In exchange for a meritorious work-frequently, contributing to a worthy cause or making a pilgrimage to a shrine-the church would dispense a sinner from his temporal punishment through its "treasury of merits." This consisted of the grace accumulated by Christ's sacrifice on the cross and the good deeds of the saints...
...conviction, Luther stood for truth at the expense of unity-but the truths he stood for are essential to the Christian church: the primacy of faith and God's word, the necessity of an ecclesia semper refor-manda (ever-reforming church), and the centrality of Jesus Christ. The Lutheran heritage, sums up Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago Divinity School, is "a tradition of profound, relentless, critical Biblical studies, a theological reflection of truly catholic scope, a type of piety nurtured by liturgical continuity with the old Catholic tradition...
...with the findings of many psychologists. When you think of all the nervous breakdowns, which are caused by the fact that people have built up some great image, this is still a liberating doctrine: that even when you slip up, you lay the whole lot at the feet of Christ, and you go on from there. All the striving and fear and anxiety goes. This seems to me a rediscovery of the sheer wonder of God's grace." Recent Luther research has emphasized the strong streak of secularity in his thought, which amounts to a virtual command...