Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholars are at loggerheads over the extent to which the Essene documents affect traditional Christianity. Says Dupont-Sommer, a former Roman Catholic priest: "All the problems relative to primitive Christianity henceforth find themselves placed in a new light, which forces us to reconsider them completely." Christ, he feels, is a prototype, "in many respects an astonishing reincarnation" of the Essene Teacher of Righteousness. This implies that Jesus might have found in Essene thinking a role readymade for him. But Dupont-Sommer emphasizes that...
Uniqueness of Christ. Dr. Cross finds many of Dupont-Sommer's views "flamboyant," his theses "methodologically unsound," i.e., Cross thinks the French scholar may have been misled by later Christian interpolations in some Essene documents. Moreover, Presbyterian Cross believes that Dupont-Sommer often bases his arguments on mere word play. There is no proof in the scrolls, says Cross, that the Teacher of Righteousness was considered a Messiah or that he was martyred. Cross concedes the similarity between the teachings of the Essenes and early Christianity, but holds that this in no way invalidates Christian teaching or puts...
...Life in Christ" is the content of faith-not intellectual assent to a list of propositional truths but the total involvement of my life in creative freedom, in that love which is incarnate in Christ. Regarding the Biblical accounts: I have not attempted a so-called naturalistic explanation. I have merely asserted what seems a normal and natural assumption, that the accounts as such are relative, historical, open to investigation and therefore subject to a variety of interpretations and opinions. Luther recognized this. Those who have raised these issues have insisted on my holding their opinions, not on the level...
...only as a chain of economical young men's hotels, a place of gymnasia, swimming pools and evening classes. Yet the Y.M.C.A.'s aim was set down clearly a hundred years ago in a statement called the "Paris Basis": "To unite those young men who, regarding Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour . . . desire to be His disciples . . . and to associate their efforts for the extension of His Kingdom among young...
...some U.S. churches, Jesus Christ is constantly being made over in the image of Dale Carnegie. Sinclair Lewis took a caustic look at this kind of anthropomorphism in Elmer Gantry, his 1927 satirical novel about the ministry. Lewis enraged the righteous but he made few people apprehensive about the state of the clergy: his pen was too vicious, his view too obviously jaundiced...