Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will Satan be saved? The great 3rd century theologian Origen seems to have thought so, and some of the early church writers agreed with him. But Christian theology crystallized around the opposite view: the Devil is everlastingly damned to an everlasting Hell, and Dante put it in a famous nutshell with the inscription over the gate to his Inferno-Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
...Rome last week the question of Satan's salvation was once again warming theological tempers. Author-Philosopher Giovanni Papini, whose Life of Christ (1921) made him famous and who was converted to Roman Catholicism while writing it, made the Devil the subject of his latest (and 40th) book, Il Diavolo. And he decided that there was hope...
...Theological treatises," wrote Papini, "will continue to say no to the doctrine of a total and final reconciliation [between God and the Devil], but the heart, which 'has reasons which reason knows not of,' will go on yearning for and expecting the answer to be yes." If the answer is yes, Hell will also have to close down eventually, and Papini's heart has its reasons for this, too. "Many Christians . . . think that a God who is truly a father cannot torture his children eternally . . . that, at the end of time, that is, the present world, mercy...
...year-old Author Papini only sits and smiles from the great velvet armchair in his little villa in Florence where he spends his days, partially paralyzed and all but blind. "My relations with the Devil," he says, "are very ancient. They go back at least 50 years . . . The Devil, who plays an important part in the life of men, is unknown. It seems to me important that men should know him intimately." To the suggestion that he is in grievous error and may be ordered to withdraw the book, he points out that he is not engaged in defining doctrine...
...ever-widening spread of TV, became calamitous in 1952. By year's end the weekly audience was cut in half, and box-office receipts were down nearly 30%. Then, early in 1953, came the 3-D craze, launched in December 1952 by Arch Oboler's inept Bwana Devil, and seeming to prove that audiences would look at anything that could leap out and bite them. Cinerama, playing in only seven cities, grossed a staggering $6,000,000. But no sooner was Hollywood retooling for 3-D than Cinema Scope rocked the industry with its widescreen, multiple-sound-track...