Word: clergyman
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...make leaps of faith. Valjean first appears in chains; released after 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to save his sister's starving child, he remains unrepentant. Given shelter by a bishop, the hardened Valjean robs him, only to be recaptured by police; when the clergyman backs up his false claim that the booty was a gift, Valjean undergoes a moral transformation. He also undergoes a legal one: he destroys his papers, takes a new name and eventually becomes a wealthy man. Twice he risks all to save other men; then, having befriended the dying prostitute...
Shortly before Bill Clements took office as Governor of Texas in January, he named a Dallas clergyman as his staff adviser on matters of morality. The appointment was unusual but not all that surprising: Clements has talked a lot about morality...
...plight of the two camps came to light in a shocking request by Sheik Khalil Sharkiyeh, the chief Sunni Muslim clergyman of the Burj el-Barajneh camp. Because of acute food shortages, Sharkiyeh appealed to Muslim scholars for a fatwa, or religious ruling, that would allow starving residents to eat human flesh if that became necessary for survival. Though no such edict was forthcoming, an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose forces are defending the camps, said last week that conditions for the 35,000 besieged Palestinians had grown desperate. "Our people in Burj el-Barajneh have already eaten...
Wide-ranging in his interests, lively in his prose and incisive of opinion, Marty, 58, a Lutheran clergyman, is generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...
...latest in Doubleday's distinguished series of new translations and line-by-line studies of all the biblical books. When completed, the set will consist of 65 volumes by 46 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish experts. Mann's 715-page analysis took nine years to complete. An Anglican clergyman, the author was a Bible professor and dean at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore from 1968 until his 1983 retirement. He is best known as co-author of a 1971 Anchor Bible volume on the Gospel of Matthew...