Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy (1821-1910) twice widowed, once divorced, created a sect that now shows all signs of permanency. Its central tenet, as everyone knows, is that spirit alone is real. Matter is the projection of mind; disease, "error" of thought. Members of her Church of Christ, Scientist, come to meetings. "Readers" recite sections of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures; at certain services fellow-believers rise and tell "experiences," express thanks for "favors" done them in misery. They have the consolation of being well regimented in one of 2,200 Christian Science congregations...
THIS small book, so Dr. Grenfell tells us in the preface, had its genesis in the request of various friends that he "put on record" what Christ means to him. Those friends may have expected from him a measured, careful statement of his religious creed, instead of which he gives them, and us, a brief but extraordinarily vivid autobiography. In taking this course rather than the other, Dr. Grenfell has very certainly been truer both to himself and to his subject, for, as he says, "facts are still the most trustworthy and verifiable things we know of." What anything...
...King of Kings. The film, ostensibly sacred, is not inspired. Jt presents Christ in terms most commonly understood, most easily loved: a kindly Being Who performed miracles for others yet suffered physical agonies most heart-rending sooner than save Himself, The necessity for the suffering lies in the evil genius of Caiaphas, the high priest. But Producer Cecil B. DeMille's emphasis throughout is upon the pictured Christ's ability to straighten crooked feet, restore sight, raise the dead, upon the horribly graphic depictions of tortures...
...Christ is shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers...
...with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell it to. . . ." The Book of Acts...