Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does the search for the Jesus of history have any relevance for believers? Some thinkers, like Bultmann before them, are content to distinguish between a Christ of faith, who is knowable, and a historical Jesus, who is not. Other liberals, however, are searching fervently for a real-life Jesus, whether sage or prophet, to fill what they see as an urgent need for spiritual nourishment and a renewed impetus for social reform. "Jesus may be one of the finest persons who ever lived, but the average person doesn't have any access to him," says Robinson of Claremont. He believes...
...Blacks agree with Jackson. Yet, because Jackson is the Black leader, and so long as Blacks are content to be his followers, his opinion will be the only one that counts...
...widespread rejection of the term liberal mirrored a widespread rejection of the content of postwar American liberalism, the Democrats could be forthrightly condemned for their linguistic sleight of hand. But the Democrats' hypocrisy reflects the hypocrisy of American voters. And the voters learned their hypocrisy from the Republicans...
...have expressed support for NATO and called for a "conventional defense initiative." This exhortation, which so far is largely lacking in content, seems intended to constitute your substitute for SDI and other new strategic . programs. Those of us who have long advocated an improved conventional capability are eager to join in any serious effort to that end. But you seem not to have faced up to the intractable reality that improvement in the conventional balance is both difficult and costly...
Invoking "unity" like a mantra, the Democrats rallied around their standardbearer. Dukakis and his team managed to keep the party's myriad special-interest groups content, yet not too well fed. As a media spectacle, the convention's only failing was so unusual for Democrats that they reveled in it: the floor show was rather dull and undramatic. The high points were the rousing speeches: Keynoter Ann Richards of Texas ridiculing George Bush for going after a "job he can't get appointed to"; Ted Kennedy cataloging the sins of the Reagan years; Jackson's resounding evocation of the personal...