Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...index is still not complete. In one day, a staff member may have to catalogue an 6th century statue, a 6th century painting, a 9th century illuminated manuscript, a 4th century funeral slab. He may have to catalogue each work in several different ways-by character, by scene (e.g., Christ teaching), by object (e.g., Solomon's Temple). Finally, he has to enter his information on one of 16 different types of cards-grey for textiles, brown for leather, white for sculpture...
...that the "sawdust aisle" of the camp meeting was really just the beginning of a Christian education. With $25,000 in contributions and savings, he set up a college designed to be "uncompromisingly orthodox and definitely and spiritually evangelistic . . . to witness for and win people to the Lord Jesus Christ." He had 88 students...
...year the university marketed a 100-minute film version of Macbeth in full color, with Bob Jr., as usual, in the title role. Before the action, the star explains to the audience Shakespeare's "gospel message," i.e., Macbeth came to grief because "he did not know and love Christ...
Last week the Preacher Boys were heading off campus again for their summer missions. Each man must preach one sermon a week; every day he must find a new spiritual "contact," ask him how he stands with Christ...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...