Word: clericalization
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...Baronet MacLeod of Fuinary, sometime Moderator of the Church of Scotland and-quite possibly- that nation's best-known living Protestant minister. In her New Year's Honors List, Queen Elizabeth raised Sir George to the rank of baron; he thus becomes the first Church of Scotland cleric ever entitled to sit in the House of Lords...
LOGOS: Does it? I quote from a distinguished cleric: "I can't make heads or tails out of a great deal of what Tillich says." The confessor is Dr. Billy Graham himself...
...seems almost unfair to mention an individual actor. "Seems" is not, however, nearly enough to forestall mention of Andrew T. Weil. The man could play a pumpkin seed and people would laugh. Roar. In Lovely War he is at times a German officer and at times a butter-tongued cleric. His reading of the German proclamation of war, in German, could not be done at the speed Weil does it unless he had two tongues...
...Graham crusades will be the use of closedcircuit television to broadcast the crusade to cities as far away as Glasgow and Edinburgh. All these techniques are designed to take dead aim on Britain's low rate (10%) of church attendance, on the huffy refusal of the average English cleric to proselytize, and on the acknowledged need of Graham's men to conserve the results of decisions for Christ better than they have in the past...
...example, your garden variety cleric usually isn't a CIA-trained expert on Russia. Nor has he been instrumental in organizing a movement which profoundly affected the fabric of American society (the freedom rides of the early '60's.) Nor does he yet harbor a secret desire to be a concert pianist...