Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar Judaeo-Christian God, Miller asserts, is indeed dead. In Miller's view, he died much as Prometheus warned that Zeus would die: he usurped power over the other gods whose existence nourished his own. This happened, says Miller, because Christian theology, particularly after the Reformation, became dogmatic and narrow. Miller argues that Jesus himself was neither. He proclaimed that there were "many mansions" in his father's house, and in teaching he used a variety of parables. Complains Miller: "Christian theology has reduced those parables to a few creeds, all of which say the same thing." What...
...There was general jubilation in my home town when it became known that I was going seminary, and many prayers of thanks," he recalls. "But when they found out that I was going to Harvard Divinity School, there were even more prayers. Because that was Godless Harvard, and no Christian who ever went in ever emerged intact. It was a place where raving atheists, secularists and agnostics ran rampant. Like the city of Nineveh, there were no righteous men to be found, and unlike the city, there weren't even any good cattle." But a baptism by fire was exactly...
Harvard does not insult the devout as much as it assaults religion itself, and Gomes takes "the life of the mind" seriously. But by his own definition, a good preacher "is not apologetic about his role as a Christian in what is easily called a post-Christian age." Harvard offers an additional insidious pitfall: "You must deal with power," Gomes says. "Harvard is full of powerful people, but you must not be seduced or corrupted by power. You walk a very tight rope...
...reels out examples of individuals who, he said, influenced historical currents. "If it hadn't been for John Brown, the Civil War wouldn't have come when it did. If it hadn't been for Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, there wouldn't have been a Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
...20th century, both the physical and spiritual health of her people were still intact. In those days, however, an important condition was fulfilled: that authoritarian order possessed a strong moral foundation. Although it was embryonic and rudimentary, it reposed, not on the ideology of universal violence, but on Christian Orthodoxy... Once this moral principle was perverted and weakened, the authoritarian order, in spite of the external successes of the state, gradually went into a decline and perished...