Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What will they talk about? For four years, from Asia to Europe to America, Protestant and Orthodox leaders have been exchanging memoranda, sifting agenda and preparing to discuss six themes, for which the Assembly will divide itself into six commissions: 1) Our Oneness in Christ and Our Disunity as Churches, 2) The Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life, 3) The Responsible Society in a World Perspective, 4) Christians in the Struggle for World Community, 5) Racial and Ethnic Tensions, 6) The Laity: the Christian in His Vocation. The very fact that 161 Protestant and Orthodox communions...
Islands of Inactivity. In Van Dusen's day at Princeton (it was also F. Scott Fitzgerald's day), the contemptuous tag for fellows like Pit was apt to be "Christ-er." Pit spent two summers as counselor at a Princeton-run camp for underprivileged children, and became so interested in social problems that he followed up some of the families during the school year. He joined a boycott of the undergraduate eating clubs, in a vain attempt to force them to offer membership to any and all upperclassmen. Exclusion, he maintained, was "undemocratic and un-Christian...
According to the New Testament-and the classic creeds-Christ, who has already come, will return a second time "to judge both the quick and the dead." The earliest Christians seem to have expected Christ's Second Coming and the end of the world as something that was just around the corner...
...these he added a third proposition, and its fuller development indicated that it was Van Dusen's own. This view "does not deny the possibility of Christ's return to end history. But it does not believe this expectation to be an essential element in Christian hope for the world, and for at least two reasons. It points to the indubitable fact that the early church anticipated the imminent return of Christ and that that expectation was not fulfilled...
...Music Club's Good Friday Concert, given last night in the Fogg Museum Courtyard, was superbly planned to express the spirit and significance of the religious season. The principal work was the oratorio The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schuetz, a German composer who lived a century before Bach. The opening and closing choral ensembles are an exhortation to think upon the Seven Words on this anniversary of the Crucifixion as a means of sharing the anguish of Christ. The body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form...