Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecture series, which begins Dec. 1, Miller is expected to question the adequacy of modern psychological methods for the exploration of the human "self," and to call for greater use of "the mirrors of history, the Christ, and the contemporary world crisis." Miller will also discuss "the Church's debt to contemporary heretics...
Berceo, a mystic poet, expressed the "absolute harmony of heaven and earth through exact poetical language," Guillen said. Within a strict rhyme scheme, Berceo described a world in which unity and order were maintained by Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary...
Berceo was, in fact, "the believer par excellence," whose faith in Christ and the Virgin was untainted by doubt. Because of this belief, he was able to write of the lives of saints, the salvation of sinners, the experience of the divine in "an elevated and sublime style...
...Billy Graham's five-month New York Crusade, which officially closed last week with a rally attended by 40,000 at Manhattan's Polo Grounds, drew audiences totaling 2,145.000 and resulted in 60,577 "decisions for Christ...
When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...