Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingmar Bergman needs no praise for those Brattle patrons who saw his delightful Smiles of a Summer Night earlier this year. And just as that earlier, lighter masterwork examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunnar Bjornstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other...
...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...
David danced before the ark, but that was not "social dancing." Social dancing has long been viewed by many Christians as dangerous to spiritual health if not actually sinful. The Missouri Synod Lutherans, for instance, disapprove of what a special committee of their ministers defined as "the embrace of members of the opposite sexes who are not married to each other.'' But, meeting in Milwaukee last week, the Concordia College conference, attended by 50 ministers of the Missouri synod (membership: 2,150,230), tentatively opened the door to the "party. "In the literature of our synod with respect...
Such religion as there can be in modern life, every Individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself ... I am a pagan . . . the Christian believer lives in a world governed and watched over by God . . . On the other hand, the pagan lives in this world like an orphan...
...while ago in France. I had taken two of my children into the dining car ahead for some ice cream, and we were served unusually quickly-which meant that just before the wreck we had left the car, in which a great many people were killed. Some of my Christian friends talked about it as though we had been especially preserved. What egotism, to assume that God loves you more than the people who were killed...