Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world civilization will inevitably raise in eastern lands the question: What is the destiny of man?--and therefore, What are the absolutes on which life is to be based? The coming of Christ was the coming of an absolute, which men must accept, or find another. The new world civilization must eventually center itself around Christ or Antichrist. And interpreting from the New Testament, there is hope that Christ will be the center. Pat Henry...
Moral authority, even in Genet's inverted world, carries with it moral responsibility. Snowball and Green Eyes are like two inverted Christ-figures. Green-Eyes says, "Here in the cell I'm the one who bears the whole brunt. The brunt of what--I don't know. I'm illiterate. But I know I need a strong back. The way Snowball bears the same weight. But for the whole prison...
...Inverted Christ-Figures...
...Cooperation is the necessary starting point, but it cannot be considered the goal," Newbigin continued. The Christian unity, the "binding in Christ," makes manifest a total commitment that makes it impossible to evade the question of full Church unity throughout the world. Newbigin strongly asserted the imminence of the problem and the importance of its solution. "The issue of Church unity," Newbigin concluded, "must be treated as an issue not for tomorrow, but for today...
...final portion of last night's lecture, the results of Christ's revelation, will be presented by Dr. Newbigin prior to his lecture this evening...