Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invited guests came poets, painters, sculptors, dramatists, composers, actors, novelists, classical scholars, university and college presidents, jurists, clergymen, editors, journalists, statesmen, soldiers, and bankers. It is pronounced to have been a gathering of eminence such as has been rarely equalled on this continent...
...chief targets of contemporary hymnpresarios are what they call "jiggy tunes"-the sentimental lyrics of late Victorian Christianity, with their self-directed emphasis upon individual salvation, and their grim and hypocritical portrayal of man's sinfulness. Most clergymen today wince at the thought of having to lead their faithful in Rock of Ages ("Foul, I to the fountain fly/ Wash me, Saviour, or I die") or Mrs. C. F. Alexander's all too vivid hymn entitled The Circumcision...
Among other forebears of the Queen, not all recognized by Burke's, are Shakespeare, three clergymen, an innkeeper, Frederick the Great of Prussia, a plumber, and Spain's11th century hero, Rodrigo (El Cid) Diaz de Bivar. Elizabeth's surviving kinsfolk include eight-year-old Kira Alexandrine Harris of Amarillo, Texas...
...When I look out into the market place." complains one Catholic priest, "I can no longer distinguish the believer from the pagan. I can distinguish the Jehovah's witness; I can distinguish the followers of Father Divine -but not the followers of the traditional faiths." A majority of clergymen gloomily accept the guilt of the churches for failing to administer to the Negro, the workingman, the drug addict, the divorcee-to nearly everyone, in fact, but the prosperous middle classes. Too often, says Stanford's Brown, paraphrasing the time-honored description of the Anglican Church in Britain...
...great majority of Protestant and Catholic clergymen and theologians?as well as many non-Christians?agree that Christianity is much stronger today than it was when World War II ended. Their reason is not the postwar "religious revival" (which many of them distrust as superficial) or the numerical strength of Christianity. It is that the Christian Church has finally recognized and faced the problems that have cut off much of its communication with the modern world...