Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GREEK PASSION, by Nikos Kozcmtzakis. This parable of the Christian challenge and Christ's suffering, played out by Greek Orthodox characters in a Turkish setting, was drenched with irony, pain and life, ingredients that are not apt to win even so good a writer as Kazantzakis the readership he deserves...
...There are some happy signs of a return to a more careful protection of human liberties." So said the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (30 denominations, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, with more than 35 million members). The council's third general assembly, which convened in Boston last week, was the first such gathering in a long while that did not profess to see "hysteria" rampant but found some satisfactory progress "within the framework of tested constitutional procedures." The council hailed evidence of "a spiritual seeking and hunger" in the U.S., but also sounded the churchmen...
...Roman scholars would study the New Testament, nowhere would they find any evidence that Mary had any influence upon Christ during any period of his life. Therefore it is sane and right to assume that if she had no influence then, she certainly would have none...
...think the story treats religion with the respect it deserves . . . Any interpretation of my message that leaves out the name of Jesus Christ completely ignores the source of the power which I am urging people to use in their daily lives. When TIME says that my suggestions as to how to open up one's life to this power "make personal salvation a kind of do-it-yourself project," it misses the very essence of my preaching . . . The statement that I "see in Christianity not so much redemption by suffering as an easy way to rise above sorrow...
Thus self-cast in the role of Defender of the Faith, Perón declaimed: "[One priest] says that the choice is between Christ or Perón. I have never been in conflict with Christ. What I am trying to do is to defend Christ's doctrine, which for 2,000 years priests like these have been trying to destroy...