Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evangelist Oral Roberts out of town in 1956, bucked cloudburst and heat wave to turn out some 714,000 strong for Graham's meetings in the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, the West Melbourne Stadium and the Melbourne Show Grounds, and more than 26,400 made "decisions for Christ...
...traditional questions of theology, such as the existence or nonexistence of God, take on a bafflingly unfamiliar quality in Tillich's thought. For he sees such terms as "God," "the Christ," and "the Resurrection" as symbols. To Tillich, symbols (as opposed to signs, which merely point to something) are living, growing and sometimes dying things, which participate in the power of what they symbolize. But they are not to be mistaken for the real and unknowable thing behind them. God, therefore, cannot be spoken of as "existing" or "not existing," for this would imply the limiting of the unlimitable...
...lies behind the symbol through the combination of longing and frustration, which Tillich calls "ultimate concern." Man's hope is the "New Being," a conception Tillich has derived from St. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians (II Corinthians 5:17): "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become...
...theological answers to these existential questions are: (to problems of Being) God, (to problems of Existence) the Christ, and (to problems of Life) the Spirit. The three answers correspond with the triune God of Christian dogma-Father, Son and Holy Spirit, just as Being, Existence and Life may be combined to form a picture...
...have inadvertently reported [Feb. 9] a gravely damaging misstatement from the Sunday Express. The points of misstatement were many but one in particular which attributed to me the statement that I am alive and Christ is not was so damaging to the Christian church that I took immediate legal advice and the Express kindly and forthwith inserted a letter in which I denied making any such statement, adding that to me Christ was never more alive than he is today...