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FRED L. AMES East Corinth...
...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
When St. Paul told the Christians of Corinth that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life,"* he was using inspiring language. But, as his successors soon found out, without the letter of Christianity, which includes church doctrine as well as Holy Writ, the spirit would have a hard time getting itself heard and handed down. It is a fact, however, that letter and spirit, despite the best intentions, often get in each other's way. So they did last week in Chapel Hill...
...days, gowned and bearded Orthodox priests and black-coated visiting clergymen toured points of Pauline interest. Among them: Philippi (where he preached his first sermon in Europe), Salonika (where he established his first church in Europe), Corinth (where his First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians and the Epistle to the Romans were written). The pilgrimage was under the sponsorship of the Greek Orthodox Church and the government, but Roman Catholic priests from France and Belgium were there...
...Corinth...