Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your article points up the ludicrous belief of the average individual who claims to be a Bible scholar. The experienced, professional scholars are still changing their thinking 20 centuries after the death of Christ. Perhaps we can look forward to new findings in the 40th century...
...Fresh Look. Niebuhr holds that the theology underlying Barth's political judgment is defective on two counts. First, it is too eschatological, too concerned with the second coming of Christ at the world's end to be able to see the relevancies and relativities of politics here and now. Second, says Niebuhr, it is devoid of principle. Barth once answered his colleague Emil Brunner, who had asked him why he did not oppose Communist totalitarianism as he had the Nazi variety, by saying: "The church must concern itself with political systems not in terms of principles...
...Very Rev. Eryl Stephen Thomas, dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, was categorical. Restoration of the cathedral, which had been virtually destroyed in 1941 by German bombers, was being planned, and the question of a statue of Christ for the nave had been raised. "Only one man can do it," said the dean. "Jacob Epstein...
...Jacob had some decided ideas on the subject. "Usually," he said, "Christ in majesty is shown with a crown and scepter. I rejected that. I rejected the conventional symbols, the stigmata, the crown of thorns. I told them I would not use them. I wanted to make him divine, but human." The cathedral authorities agreed...
...that he might never live to see it unveiled. Last week he put aside his plaster-spattered corduroy work clothes, put on a well-worn morning suit and black Homburg and left with his wife for the pre-Easter hallowing of the restored nave and the dedication of his Christ in Majesty...