Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world are hungry for bread, and are compelled to live in conditions which mock their human worth. Does your church speak and act against such injustice? . . . Does your congregation live for itself, or for the world around it and beyond it? ... Do you forgive one another as Christ forgave you? Is your congregation a true family of God where every man can find a home?" The message ended: "We do not know what is coming...
...acknowledge that our understanding of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ, the Hope of the World, has been limited by our pride, willfulness and narrowness of mind, and that our witness to the world is weakened by our divisions...
...most important Evanston discussions was devoted to the problem of how the churches in the 20th century should go about spreading the Word. The resulting message might have been more shoptalk for clergymen. Actually, it is addressed also to laymen-"missionaries of Christ in every secular sphere"-and forcefully defines the job of being a Christian. Excerpts...
...Fable, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner unveils a World War I passion play with a corporal as Christ, but veils his deeper meanings (TIME...
...Christian Hope. The Rector of Heidelberg University, Dr. Edmund Schlink of Germany's Evangelical Church, opened the discussion on the assembly's main theme: "Christ-the Hope of the World." Speaking for the characteristic European point of view, Professor Schlink saw Christ's salvation not of the world but out of it. "Christ is the end of the world," he said. "The name of Christ is taken in vain if it is used as a slogan in this world's struggle for its own preservation . . . Jesus Christ then is the hope of the world . . . because...