Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Christian theologians readily agree that eschatology-the doctrine of death and the afterlife-owes more to superstition than to supernatural wisdom. "The traditional views of heaven and hell are about 95% mythology," says Notre Dame's Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie. Except among some fundamentalists, the concept of a three-tier universe with heaven above, hell below and mankind in the middle struggling for divine judgment is recognized as a complete distortion of God's cryptic revelation on eternity...
Consumer Satisfaction. Though the concept of an afterlife is universal among religions. Scriptural scholars note that the Bible has relatively little to say about it. The Old Testament contains no explicit description of heaven; the closest that ancient Biblical seers got to the idea of hell was sheol-a vague limbo after death. Although much of Judaism accepts the notion of an afterlife. Jews have never unduly concerned themselves with it. According to Reform Rabbi Richard Lehrman of Atlanta, "you make it or break it right here...
When heaven and hell are conceived as starting on earth, the demythologizers argue, Christian ethics are bound to be sharply strengthened. Such a concept "imparts a tremendous value to human life here and now," says Boston University's Methodist Scholar S. Paul Schilling. The theologians also argue that a this-worldly heaven and hell are quite in keeping with the Biblical message. In Galatians 5:14 Paul says: "For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' " Scholars point out that the principal message of Matthew 25, which contains...
...pass unnoticed," it has become the most controversial -and in many ways the most powerful -Spanish ecclesiastical invention since the Jesuits. Many Spaniards call it "Octopus Dei," and in Argentina it is widely believed to be a "holy mafia." Many Jesuits, in particular, consider it heretical in both concept and practice-a sort of Catholic freemasonry. Spain's Diplomat-Journalist Ismael Herráiz charges that Opus Dei already "controls the organisms that control Spanish economic policy and is in a hurry to appropriate the instruments of social policy." In Spain, rival factions within the Franco regime as well...
Lockheed's rigid-rotor design, in effect, makes the whole shebang a stable flying gyroscope. The concept-rigid blades attached directly to the rotor shaft-was tried and dropped in the '20s; experimenters found that when they tilted the rotor to change direction, the whirling blades would tumble their machines like a gyroscope gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick...