Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graham, Niebuhr thinks, is a throwback to the theological past. "Graham still thinks within the framework of pietistic moralism. He thinks the problem of the atom bomb could be solved by converting the people to Christ, which means that he does not recognize the serious perplexities of guilt and responsibility, and of guilt associated with responsibility, which Christians must face...
...that if the Christian faith does not begin with the individual, it does not begin. But if it ends there, it ends! Existentialism of all types has confronted us with the loneliness and the uniqueness of personal life. Unless this individual is brought into an encounter with God-in-Christ so that his very existence is placed before the absolute judgment and mercy of God, he has not heard the 'gospel.' Unless he is 'converted,' he has not been initiated into the new life of Christ . . . My contention is that we must not give...
...prove that Jesus Christ is stronger than Tikoloshe, Pastor Majola routed out his congregation at midnight to watch him walk alone into the dark church. It did not end the crisis, but it helped. "They are gradually coming back," he said this week. "But when I preach, their eyes wander all the time to the broken pulpit as though they expect to see Tikoloshe suddenly jump out. With God's help I shall get back my church and my people...
Johnston was a graduate law student at Harvard thirty years ago, at the same time Adlai Stevenson was here. Most of his formal schooling was earlier completed in England, however, largely at Christ's College, Cambridge...
Died. Giovanni Papini, 75, brilliant Italian philosopher (A Finished Man) and biographer (Dante Vivo, Michelangelo), author of the bestselling Life of Christ (1921), a celebrated but intensely personal act of repentance by which he tried to atone for his early, noisy atheism; after long illness; in Florence, Italy. A revolutionary turned ascetic, near-blind Author Papini dallied with the Devil nearly all his life ("My relations with the Devil are very ancient ... It seems to me important that men should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread...