Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back at Manchester University (where he now occupies a teaching post in comparative Semitic philology), bearded John Allegro turned his reputation for brightness to one for brashness; he drew a public rebuke from his fellow scholars (TIME, April 2) when he suggested that the New Testament's Jesus Christ may have been modeled on the scrolls' "Teacher of Righteousness," who said Allegro on the basis of guess work, was also crucified. Allegro's new book prudently plays down this wild surmise. But together with a vivid account of the discoveries, Allegro gives nonscholarly readers plenty of speculation...
Last week in Milan's 13th century Church of San Marco a dedicated Milanese restorer, pretty Pinin Brambilla, 31, was finishing the task of uncovering an unsuspected fresco that tor its brilliant, fresh colors and bold, naturalistic drawing of the crucified Christ might well make even Critic Berenson eat his words...
...committee is working under the auspices of the American Foundation for the Preservation of the Christian Heritage and will endeavour to erect the city exactly as it was in the time of Christ. Eventually, replicas of Bethlehem and Nazareth will complete the 2,000 acre area which will be named Christialand...
...became a formal church member for the first time when he joined Lone Star Primitive Baptist Church.* The conversion took place in a white frame church, after a Sunday sermon, when Elder Henry Greer Ball, a grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping to hear himself baptized "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...
...adopt a view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell. "And if this is so, we can no longer accept the story of Christ's descent into hell or his ascension into heaven as literally true. We can no longer look for the return of the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven or hope that the faithful will meet...