Word: christly
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Professor Allegro's discovery of evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls that Christ had a forerunner [Feb. 6] corroborates a lecture on the Gospel of St. Matthew that was given at Bern, Switzerland way back in 1910 by a highly independent German thinker named Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The question of how Steiner was able to create a theory in clear accord with documentary evidence that was still underground is intriguing...
Steiner named Allegro's "Teacher of Righteousness" Jesus Ben Pandira." He described him as the leader of the Essenes, who was inspired "to impart a teaching that was to make comprehensible the mystery of Palestine-the mystery of Christ." Steiner went on to say that "after being accused of heresy and blasphemy [Jesus Ben Pandira] was stoned, and hanged upon a tree." Among the prophet's pupils, Steiner concluded, was a favorite named Netzer, who founded an Essene community at Nazareth. After the return from Egypt, Jesus was taken to Nazareth "that (in the words of St. Matthew...
...Eureka (Ill.) College, founded in 1855 by the elders of the local Disciples of Christ, was the victim of the Depression. In spite of every economy, it could not afford to keep up its library or replace its retiring professors. It even had to pay part of its faculty in scrip. In 1936 the North Central Association finally withdrew its accreditation. Today, reports President Ira W. Langston, the yearly deficit is still $20,000, and though the library is climbing up to par and the college has about the proper proportion of Ph.D.'s on its faculty, it cannot...
Munro will probably start Captain George Harrington and Bob Repetto at guard, and Griff McClellan, Alex Christ, and Jim Smith at the forward positions...
...Writes Richard Kugelman, a Passionist priest: " 'The Jews' are for [John] not the Jewish people but cliques, groups that are inimical to Jesus . . . The Christian who associates his Jewish neighbors with those who plotted Christ's death is perpetuating an injustice never contemplated by the apostle. If a man reads John's account of the Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast...