Word: christe
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...student who questions encouraged, the questioning scientist praised, but the questioning churchman condemned? Today Bishop Pike finds himself in the same predicament as did Socrates and Christ-born before his time. After all, faith is just that; it's not a list...
...Practical Church Dictionary says: "Bishops are the chief defenders of the Faith and ambassadors for Christ." As a bishop, Pike does not appear to have qualified on either count. One wonders whether in his attempt to speak to the modern nonbeliever Pike has not done much more harm than good to the branch of the Church of God he elected to serve. Damn James Pike then, and doubly damn those of his peers who do not publicly oppose his heresies...
Sectarian Ambiance. By contrast, Maryland permits state-taxpayer suits -and starting in 1962, the Maryland general assembly created a state college-aid program that parallels the federal setup. Four bills provided $2,500,000 for new facilities at four church-related colleges-Hood (United Church of Christ), Western Maryland (Methodist), Notre Dame and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic). All of the bills were challenged by 13 Maryland taxpayers and the Horace Mann League, an association of 500 public-school educators. The state court's decision, they hoped, would, by inference, hold the federal programs unconstitutional...
...existence of Jesus Christ "starts in the freedom of God Himself, in the freedom in which the Father and Son are one in the bond of love." Roman...
...Resurrection of Christ is another church teaching that theologians today are inclined to interpret not as meaning a reconglomeration of atoms in a cadaver but as the Apostles' unique and mysterious awareness of who Christ was and what he signified. Thus his post-Resurrection appearances to his discipies may have been, in a sense, apparitions of an extraordinarily magnetic and convincing kind. Pike accepts the Resurrection, interpreted this way, as evidence for his faith in eternal life. Like the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection may well be a mysterious event, understandable only to the eye of faith and not historically...