Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What offended Pastor Duncan about the flower show was a life-sized tableau depicting Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion. Every 45 minutes, the azalea-banked exhibit, fresh from a two-year run on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, lit up and went into a 15-minute "performance" controlled by an impressive set of electronic equipment behind the scenes. Three minutes and ten seconds after the deep, resonant voice on the sound track began the story of Gethsemane came the cue: "He turned to his disciples and they were sleeping"; at this point the head...
Theological Brotherhood. The split between Catholic and Protestant Christians is an offense to Christ, says Lutheran Cullmann, but it is unrealistic to think that it can be healed now: Protestants are not going to accept the primacy of the Pope, and Catholics are not going to accept unity on any other terms. But the climate of relations between them can be changed. In fact, says Cullmann, that climate has improved considerably in recent years. On the Continent, Cullmann is involved in discussions with Catholic colleagues "almost daily," and there are "many important questions of faith in which we are able...
...charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...
Brothers in Christ. For the past two years Cullmann has been expounding his idea throughout Europe. There have been skeptics on both sides, but more enthusiasts. After one Cullmann lecture in Rome, "a monk who did not make himself known placed a bank note wrapped in paper into my pocket. On my way home I discovered that the following words were scrawled on the paper: 'From a Catholic monk for a poor Protestant in Rome as a symbol of Christian solidarity.' I delivered the sum to the dean of a small Waldensian seminary in Rome ... He spoke...
...this practice were widespread among the churches, Professor Cullmann feels that "it would change the atmosphere of the relations between Catholics and Protestants completely, and the importance of this question of atmosphere cannot be overestimated ... If we could become accustomed to considering our separated brothers as brothers in Christ, many things would change...